New and improved FTC data security orders: Better guidance for companies, better protection for consumers
When Chairman Simons and I arrived at the FTC, one of our first priorities was to strengthen the FTC’s orders in data security cases. We’ve already made three major changes that improve data security practices and provide greater deterrence, within the bounds of our existing authority. Since the early 2000s, our data security orders had contained fairly standard language. For example, these orders typically required a company to implement a...