Companies ought to view the release of classified U.S. government documents by WikiLeaks as a wake-up call. Especially since WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange, specifically said last month that the next trove of documents he plans to release will focus not on the public sector but on businesses.
That’s the view of Thomas Smedinghoff, an attorney who has specialized in privacy and data security since the 1990s. “For businesses,” said Smedinghoff, a partner at Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon in Chicago, “this ought to be a wake-up call because the same kind of thing could happen there, too. And it has, if you believe the WikiLeaks people.”
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