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What the SAFETY Act of 2002 Means for Your Company

We all know that since 9/11, the American public has a heightened sense of anxiety about their personal safety. Our legislative body, sensing America's anxiety, created a new agency, the Department of Homeland Security ostensibly to protect us from terrorist threats. But, while doing so, Congress snuck in a compelling tort reform program. Hidden beneath the folds of the legislative verbiage creating the DHS, situated immediately before the miscellaneous provisions, lies a new program to incentivize and protect individuals and companies engaged in developing anti-terrorist technologies: the SAFETY Act of 2002. Surprisingly, the private sector, so far, has not voiced much enthusiasm for it.

21 minute read April 01, 2004 at 08:20 AM
By
Barbara A. Duncombe and David A. Carr
What the SAFETY Act of 2002 Means for Your Company

Picture this: Your company rents space in a newly constructed, state-of-the-art, downtown office building. The security measures installed are heralded as iron clad but un-intrusive ' face recognition, voice recognition, retina scan, etc.

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