"“As data security becomes a progressively more important aspect of corporate governance, and as consumers become progressively more concerned with the standards that the companies they do business with maintain,” says Andrea Matwyshyn, law professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, “there will be greater interest in the courts and in legislatures in furthering and improving the overall state of information security, and that will likely resolve in new lines of case law and new statutory approaches as well as more enforcement action by various regulatory agencies.”"
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