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Continuing the Air Travel Theme: Hang On To Those Laptops On Your Way To Conferences!

By Ann Bartow

PC World reports:

Some of the largest and medium-sized U.S. airports report close to 637,000 laptops lost each year, according to the Ponemon Institute survey released Monday. Laptops are most commonly lost at security checkpoints, according to the survey.

Close to 10,278 laptops are reported lost every week at 36 of the largest U.S. airports, and 65 percent of those laptops are not reclaimed, the survey said. Around 2,000 laptops are recorded lost at the medium-sized airports, and 69 percent are not reclaimed.

It should be noted that the referenced study was commissioned by Dell, which is marketing a new laptop tracking service to assist with recovery of stolen laptops.

–Ann Bartow

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).