Companies may still recover some reputational equity by making such common cause with their customers and partners, but that will not exempt them from the harshest penalties imposed to date for failing to protect private data.

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In case insurers did not get this hint, Congress also imposed an expiration date on these policies.

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Instead, he should have been aggressively pushing frequent, unannounced, up-to-date testing, with severe penalties imposed for infractions.

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