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Profession: Electronic Discovery Professional

The Laptop Hall Of Shame - "The Year of the Stolen Laptop"

Category: Compliance Audits & Investigations

Excellent article by Robert Ellis Smith of Forbes highlighting the current state of personal data security within corporate America. Enlightening and frightening.

When the history of personal privacy is written--and there are persons who monitor this sort of thing--they will call this "The Year of the Stolen Laptop."

The number of incidents has been astounding, topped by the theft of a laptop computer last May from the residence of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs staff person; the computer contained millions of names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. Law enforcement officers actually recovered the stolen laptop and arrested two suspects, and they have found no evidence that the data inside was used to compromise anybody's privacy.

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