Holding Companies Accountable for Privacy Breaches
It’s become almost a weekly occurrence: Another online company letting customers personal and private information leak because of an Internet breach.
Sometimes this sensitive data is stolen by hackers who gain access through holes in a network that customers unwittingly trust companies to protect. Lately, there are more instances of companies procuring data without customers’ knowledge and using it for — well, who knows what they’re using it for?
People hand over their names, addresses, passwords, birth dates and sometimes credit card information in exchange for access to online services and technologies that they hope will better their lives or business. In many instances these services do that, but increasingly the companies tend to disregard the importance of protecting personal and sensitive information.
