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But Chris Hoofnagle, a senior fellow at the University of California at Berkeley’s law school who has been critical of Acxiom, thinks that the outcome might have been different if the attorneys had filed the suit in California. State law (AB1950) requires businesses that own or license personal information about Californians to “implement and maintain reasonable security procedures.”
“I would hope that one could think of more causes of action other than identity theft and negligence,” Hoofnagle said.