Law Technology

Laptop Hall Of Shame

By Michael Arkfeld

Laptop Hall Of Shame. "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. . . "

Full post as published by Electronic Discovery & Evidence on September 08, 2006 (boomark / email).