Making Sense of the FTC’s Data Security Standards and its Wyndham Win | Practical Law
A Legal Update discussing the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) data security enforcement. It includes a discussion of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit's decision in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide Corp. holding that the FTC has data security enforcement authority under the unfairness prong of Section 5 of the FTC Act, the FTC's key data security principles and actions that have triggered FTC enforcement.