UK's data czar moving to criminalize un-secured laptops
A single incident wouldn’t trigger charges, but “gross negligence” would be punishable by jail time and fines.
We actually like this heavy handed approach. Non-techcnical people tend to be irresponsible with their hardware, not really realizing it’s often our data within that hardware that’s also at risk. We hope this wakes them up a little bit, and that we’ll get a similar law here.
Lose an unencrypted laptop and ‘face criminal action’ [Computerworld UK]