Document Type
Article
Abstract
Sharing personal information with a lawyer potentially represents the greatest source of vulnerability for an individual. Since the first major security breach in 2005, law firms have been pressed both by public authorities and clients to take action in order to protect confidential information from potential harmful breaches.
This paper seeks to provide an overview of the challenges faced by lawyers in handling personal information with regard to potential security breaches. The aim is to analyze this issue through the focal of privacy law; statistics on security breaches and tools to prevent this phenomenon, extensively studied in class, are given less attention.
Date of Authorship for this Version
4-19-2015
Keywords
data breaches, privacy law, lawyers
Recommended Citation
Duc-Bragues, Charlotte, "Data Breaches and Privacy Law: Lawyers’ Challenges in Handling Personal Information" (2015). Cornell Law School J.D. Student Research Papers. 35.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/lps_papers/35
