04 Dec LabMD latest to challenge FTC’s cybersecurity regulation authority
Quote from Inside Counsel
Hotelier Wyndham Worldwide Corp. has been engaged in a battle with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for months over whether the commission holds the right to regulate corporate cybersecurity. But now, the FTC faces a similar challenge from another corporation — this time from the medical field.
Medical testing laboratory LabMD Inc. has filed a complaint against the FTC in an administrative law court, challenging the FTC’s authority to file an August 2013 complaint against the company for a data breach. In the complaint, the FTC had alleged that sensitive information from 9,000 LabMD users was found on a file sharing network.
