07 May FTC’s Ability to Regulate Data Security Potentially Limited in FTC v. LabMD
Quote from Alston & Bird
In the latest chapter of the ongoing battle between the FTC and LabMD, Inc. (“LabMD”) about the FTC’s claim that LabMD violated the FTC Act’s Section 5 bar on “unfair” acts or practices because of its allegedly inadequate data security practices, an administrative law judge overseeing the FTC’s administrative action against LabMD recently issued two discovery orders. These discovery orders may, at least to some extent, force the FTC to outline its sometimes opaque standards for data security.
