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Education And Information Sharing: Underutilized Tools In FTC’s Data Security Work

Posted on September 17, 2014 by Dissent

Glenn G. Lammi of the Washington Legal Foundation writes:

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has brought 52 enforcement actions involving data breaches. Fifty of those businesses, whose computer systems were illegally accessed by hackers, settled rather than fight FTC’s accusations that they acted “deceptively” or “unfairly” under § 5 of the FTC Act. And yet, the data breaches just keep on coming, with unlawful intrusions on Home Depot’s payment-card processing system and the federal HealthCare.gov websiteoccurring just this past week. It’s high time the Commission utilized tools at its disposal aside from the enforcement hammer to address data security.

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