DATA SECURITY
--Maine Supreme Court to Decide Hannaford Liability (October 9 & 12, 2009) The Maine Supreme Court will decide whether or not retailers that fail to protect consumers' payment card data will be required to compensate those people for the time they spend correcting any problems that arise from a data security breach. Consumers are already covered for unauthorized charges under banks' zero-liability protection policies.
In this case, the court must decide if "time and effort alone, spent in a reasonable effort to avert reasonably foreseeable harm, constitute a cognizable injury under Maine common law." The case involves the breach at Hannaford Bros. in which millions of payment card numbers were compromised.
http://consumerist.com/5379157/maines-supreme-court-to-decide-if-consumers-should-be-compensated-for-hannaford-security-breach
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/hannaford/
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