I recently wrote about the theft of personal data belonging to 26 million veterans.
The first class action lawsuit has been filed over the incident.
WASHINGTON—Claiming that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, “flagrantly disregarded the privacy rights of essentially every man or woman to have worn a United States military uniform,” veterans groups today filed a massive class-action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
The suit asks that the courts prohibit the VA from handling any personal, privacy protected data except under court supervision, and that the court create a set of “consensus minimal security standards” under which the VA can operate.