dumwaldo
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Re: Stolen Laptop and Liability?
Is there a password on your laptop?
Are the backup's password protected in any way?
If they are I don't see how you are liable if you were not negligent. At least thats what the law would want to know in the United States.
Contacting 10000 customers would be a tremendous undertaking that is bound to cost your company a lot of money as well as waiver confidence in the company with those 10000 customers.
BTW
Was it stolen or did you lose it? Was it stolen from you directly or was it stolen from your possession (home, car, office, etc...)?
As long as you took reasonable measures to protect the data I don't see as how you will be held liable. Especially if the clients don't know what happened. It is not like some bank defrauder is going to call them up and say, "your bank fraud experience was courtesy of NetwX and the laptop I stole from him. Have a nice day."
peace,
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