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Why you can be sued if you use personal devices to access work data
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The court found that downloading files on company laptops was fine, but this will become a wrongdoing if done on personal devices.
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- An employee was sued by his employers for downloading company data to his personal and work laptops before resigning.
- Downloading files to a company laptop wasn't a breach if the device was returned, but downloading to a personal device could lead to liability in a court case.
- He later deleted the files he took from the company from his personal laptop, but it was detrimental to his defence against the firm's lawsuit.
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SINGAPORE - Many companies have rules that ban the use of personal devices to access corporate data and all employees should do as told if they want to avoid any trouble, as a man found out in a recent employment dispute.
The senior employee of an investment firm was sued by his company after he resigned because checks showed that he had downloaded thousands of business documents to both his personal and company laptops in the same month before he left.
