{"id":324,"date":"2015-11-19T21:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/11\/19\/trendy-lege-legal-issue-did-the-breach-lead-to-harm-how-one-alj-decided-courts-differ\/"},"modified":"2015-11-19T21:45:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T21:45:00","slug":"trendy-lege-legal-issue-did-the-breach-lead-to-harm-how-one-alj-decided-courts-differ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/trendy-lege-legal-issue-did-the-breach-lead-to-harm-how-one-alj-decided-courts-differ\/","title":{"rendered":"Trendy Lege &#038; legal Issue: Did the Breach Lead to Harm? How one ALJ Decided.Courts Differ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courts and legislatures have differed as to whether a person can bring a lawsuit when their personal data is stolen, but the data has not been used to harm the person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened in this administrative law case?<\/strong>\u00a0The FTC has been trying to enforce sanctions against a health care company for a data breach.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC legalese is that the health care company&#8217;s &#8221;\u00a0purported failure to institute reasonable data security constituted an unfair trade practice under section 5 of the FTC Act, because the conduct caused or is likely to cause substantial injury to consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wait, I thought it was the FCC that did data security regulatory enforcement? <\/strong>Several federal agencies have regulatory authority. The FCC, the FCC, HHS and the SEC have all been involved.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did the ALJ order in this case?<\/strong>\u00a0That since there was no proven injury from the data security breach at the health care company, and the only measure of injury was through speculation; therefore FTC you lose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologylawdispatch.com\/2015\/11\/privacy-data-protection\/alj-dismisses-ftcs-data-security-suit-against-labmd-for-failure-to-prove-substantial-injury-to-consumers\/?utm_source=Mondaq&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=View-Original\">Reed Smith | Technology Law Dispatch |\u00a0\u00a0ALJ Dismisses FTC\u2019s Data Security Suit Against LabMD for Failure to Prove \u2018Substantial Injury\u2019 to Consumers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courts and legislatures have differed as to whether a person can bring a lawsuit when their personal data is stolen, but the data has not been used to harm the person.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened in this administrative law case?<\/strong>\u00a0The FTC has been trying to enforce sanctions against a health care company for a data breach.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC legalese is that the health care company&#8217;s &#8221;\u00a0purported failure to institute reasonable data security constituted an unfair trade practice under section 5 of the FTC Act,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9,3,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-data","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","category-private-corporations","category-regulatory-enforcement","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}