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Employers May Be Liable For Employee Data Breaches

By Pulina Whitaker (March 16, 2018, 2:45 PM EDT) -- In December 2017, the U.K. High Court, in Various Claimants v. WM Morrisons Supermarket PLC, held for the first time that an employer could be vicariously liable for an employee's misuse of data. The case is also the first example of class action litigation in the data protection arena in the U.K., potentially marking a new risk for employers at a time when the spotlight is on data protection obligations with the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") in force on May 25, 2018....

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