2017 Pa. Super. 8 - Dittman, B. v. UPMC’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “electronic storage of information. Id. at 327 (Stabile, J., concurring). Judge Musmanno wrote a dissenting statement concluding that, on balance, the Althaus factors weighed in favor of imposing a duty of reasonable care on UPMC. Specifically, Judge Musmanno challenged the majority's conclusion that the social utility of electronically storing employee information outweighed the risk and foreseeability of the harm, believing it to be”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dittman, B., Aplt. v. UPMC

2. “which outweighed the nature of the risk imposed and foreseeability of the harm incurred in so doing. Id. at 323-24 . While the court noted that the general risk of storing information electronically increases as data breaches become more common and that data breaches and the ensuing harm were generally foreseeable,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dittman, B., Aplt. v. UPMC

3. “unnecessary to require employers to incur potentially significant costs to increase security measures when there was no true way to prevent data breaches altogether.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dittman, B., Aplt. v. UPMC