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Submitted 2 years ago

BombTrack says,

It's all fund and games until you are in the courtroom defending ourself.

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Article excerpt from mashable.com — "In a highly troubling ruling from U.S. District Court Judge James Ware, Google was ordered to deactivate the Gmail account of an innocent user whose only crime was receiving the results of a Bank screw-up. Earlier this week an employee at a Wilson, Wyoming-based Rocky Mountain Bank inadvertently sent confidential information...

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Posted 2 years ago

This is NOT going to bode well for the bank and that judge once this user figures out his rights.

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Posted 2 years ago

That doesn't make sense to me.

My bank sends stupid updates about their website to my e-mail address. But any sensitive information is always sent through the postal service or an insured carrier. Never over the internet.

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