categories potential financial liability and potential reputation liability. here s the deal, we re looking at consumer protection laws which protects your information, but there are even more serious laws, pamela, around the storage of financial information. and what i find to be interesting is most people on this web site are actually paying for their membership with a credit card so there are very strict policies in place for how it is that a company is allowed to store your credit card information for ongoing purchases like a membership like this. so if they were violating federal and state data security laws as it relates to the financial regulations, that s a much more serious breach. it s got much greater teeth in it. whether or not someone can sue them personally, their user agreement is buttoned up, probably 47 or 50 pages long. as long as they use a reasonable stan card in the way in which they have security software on this site, they probably covered
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