California, for example, has a law (I believe it passed) which makes it
mandatory for companies to inform customers of known breaches in online
security.
In short however I would say "Yes", you could be held responsible. I
agree with Mark however: get a real lawyer to tell you ridiculous things
that are nonetheless true. We've got a cadre of several hundred
throughout the company and all they seem to do from the developer's
perspective is come up with heavily worded completely inscrutable, but
no doubt highly necessary disclaimers for our website.
Oh - and display rules for them. by far the most complex component of my
code is disclaimer display rules.
Jim Davis
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Densmore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:56 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Liabilities
Does anyone know where there might be some good info on how a company is
liable for customer info being stolen if someone were to hack into a
website? We are in the process of moving our online ordering away from a
3rd part company and creating our own, and part of the process is to
research liability issues.
Is anyone here knowledgeable in this area? Would we be held responsible
at all? We are not going to store CC numbers so that shouldn't be an
issue unless someone was pulling out data while the forms were being
populated.
Thanks,
Ben
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