The company may also face action from European authorities under GDPR, the new data protection regulation, which can fine a company up to four percent of its global worldwide revenue for data breaches and negligent data exposures.
To confront the inevitable surge in attacks, 2013 should be the year of mandatory encryption, stringent security, and tough legislation holding negligent data stewards accountable; and "accountable," dear friends, means doing hard time, not mouthing lukewarm mea culpas.
Brands that are slow – or even negligent – in protecting customer data will lose out to rivals seeking to build such trust by placing principled responsibility for information at the heart of their business profile.
Also, governments struck by natural calamities, especially those in the developing world, are often too inefficient or negligent to tally reliable data and must rely on the numbers provided by disaster-relief organizations.
The GDPR's article 83 sets out general conditions for calculating fines — saying penalties should be "effective, proportionate and dissuasive"; and they must take into account factors such as whether an infringement was intentional or negligent; the categories of personal data affected; and how co-operative the data controller is as the data supervisor investigates.
Developed by a DFG commission in consultation with international fraud experts, the rules define scientific misconduct as "deliberate or grossly negligent falsification or fabrication of data".
"All Georgians, regardless of party, should support efforts to ensure the security and verifiability of future elections by examining any vulnerabilities observed during the Special Election, including data card errors, negligent cybersecurity practices, the theft of voting equipment, and the deletion of data amidst a legal inquiry".
It's a trend that's been clear for many years: The stewards of consumers' personal info — businesses, hospitals, government agencies — are woefully negligent when it comes to safeguarding data.
Amidst additional news that British Petroleum has been slow or negligent in the release of flow data and videos of the catastrophic rupture of the Transocean/Deepwater Horizon wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico, there is another story that is crying for attention.
(Homicides classified as murder or non-negligent manslaughter are included in the F.B.I. data for murder).
So far, two class action lawsuits against Equifax have been proposed, alleging that the credit monitoring company was negligent in protecting its customers' private information and should have spent more money protecting the data against cyberattacks. .
