Is My Online Data Protected?
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When you provide a website with your personal information, the company behind that website has a duty to protect it. In the past, some companies have notoriously failed at this endeavor, resulting in privacy beaches. If you have suffered a breach of your online data or are hoping to prevent one from happening, speak one of our Florida class action attorneys right away. Here’s one of our firm’s partners, Curtis Miner, to explain why having a seasoned attorney at your side is important.
To learn more about privacy breaches, visit www.colson.com or call 305-476-7400.
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In this day and age, people are more and more frequently buying things, subscribing to things, through the internet. You have all sorts of internet based accounts. You have all sorts of internet based passwords and usernames. And anytime that you are providing your own personal information. Whether it’s just as simple as your name and your date of birth and your address, that’s getting stored somewhere. And that data can be very valuable to people who have bad purposes in mind. Companies like your doctors, your insurers, the banks you work with, the mortgage companies you work with. They have an obligation to treat your personal data, your private data with care. They have an obligation to keep it safe and to keep it secure. If they fail in that obligation, in what’s known as a data breach, or a hack, and there have been some notorious ones with large retailers, like Target, have had their data hacked and literally millions of customers have had their private information fall into the hands of people who use it for identity theft. And those companies have an obligation to prevent those hacks. They have an obligation to store your data safely. For more information, call Colson Hicks Eidson at 305-476-7400 or visit our website, www.colson.com.
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