{"id":863,"date":"2017-12-28T22:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2017\/12\/28\/legal-trend-data-breach-liability-for-employers\/"},"modified":"2017-12-28T22:03:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:03:00","slug":"legal-trend-data-breach-liability-for-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/legal-trend-data-breach-liability-for-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend. Data Breach Liability for Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A UK court found that an employer, that had taken appropriate measures to prevent a data breach,\u00a0 can be held vicariously liable for a data breach when an employee:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>deliberately misused the data<\/li>\n<li>intended to\u00a0cause\u00a0damage to the employer by misuing the data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bonjour U.S. State Legislators- daat security\u00a0liability issues should be in your radar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexology.com\/library\/detail.aspx?g=7c54cebc-73cf-4dc2-aa78-256d77a44919\">Lexology |\u00a0Employer held vicariously liable for employee&#8217;s deliberate data breach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailii.org\/cgi-bin\/format.cgi?doc=%2Few%2Fcases%2FEWHC%2FQB%2F2017%2F3113.html&amp;query=(morrisons)\">WM Morrison&#8217;s Supermarket PLC |\u00a0England and Wales High Court (Queen&#8217;s Bench Division) Decisions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UK court found that an employer, that had taken appropriate measures to prevent a data breach,\u00a0 can be held vicariously liable for a data breach when an employee:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>deliberately misused the data<\/li>\n<li>intended to\u00a0cause\u00a0damage to the employer by misuing the data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bonjour U.S. State Legislators- daat security\u00a0liability issues should be in your radar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexology.com\/library\/detail.aspx?g=7c54cebc-73cf-4dc2-aa78-256d77a44919\">Lexology |\u00a0Employer held vicariously liable for employee&#8217;s deliberate data breach<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bailii.org\/cgi-bin\/format.cgi?doc=%2Few%2Fcases%2FEWHC%2FQB%2F2017%2F3113.html&amp;query=(morrisons)\">WM Morrison&#8217;s Supermarket PLC |\u00a0England and Wales High Court (Queen&#8217;s\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}