{"id":74,"date":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/01\/03\/ftc-has-authority-to-pursue-data-breach-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T21:30:00","slug":"ftc-has-authority-to-pursue-data-breach-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/ftc-has-authority-to-pursue-data-breach-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Has Authority to Pursue Data Breach Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FTC and FCC are both regulating data breaches. FTC pursued an enforcement action against Wyndham Hotels, which then challenged the FTC&#8217;s regulatory authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a case watched by many corporations, the courts said yes, the FTC has regulatory authority to take enforcment actions related to data breaches.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In late 2014, the\u00a0U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ordered the parties to mediation to save all parties time and money. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/federal-district-court-judge-orders-comp-23690\/\">\u00a0King &amp; Spaulding via JD Supra<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why does this matter? Data security laws on the state level are increasing. \u00a0State level enforcement is inevitable. Enforcement will come with hefty fines against businesses that experience data breaches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTC and FCC are both regulating data breaches. FTC pursued an enforcement action against Wyndham Hotels, which then challenged the FTC&#8217;s regulatory authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a case watched by many corporations, the courts said yes, the FTC has regulatory authority to take enforcment actions related to data breaches.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In late 2014, the\u00a0U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ordered the parties to mediation to save all parties time and money. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/lega...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-privacy","category-legal-trend","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}