Not exact matches
As well, many companies are not aware
of gaps in «traditional» insurance products that more specialty liability insurance products (i.e. media and Internet liability, cyber liability) are intended to catch, including
breach of fiduciary duty to protect
privacy of client information, content exposure (defamation, intellectual property), damages caused by virus, third party financial losses
due to system downtime, costs associated with data
breach notification following a cyber attack / hack, etc..
For example,
breach of an obligation to notify, or
of an obligation to comply with an order
of the
privacy commissioner or review officer respecting
breach notification, could be expressly made a strict liability offence, so that the non-compliant person would have to demonstrate
due diligence in order to avoid conviction.
U.S. policy holds that the government's need to protect citizens trumps
privacy rights, while the UK and the EU take the opposite tack, «which has resulted in unintended consequences
of death and destruction
due to laws that protect criminals and psychopaths and criminalize
breaches of privacy to the degree that potentially saving the lives
of others is a criminal act,» Lieberman said.