It was the wallet comment in the response brief filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit that prompted me
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From the Wild West to Westworld and (Maybe) Back to Normal – the Ongoing Saga of LabMD (Part 1 of 2)
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It was nearly three years ago that I first blogged about the Federal Trade Commission’s “Wild West” data breach enforcement action brought against now-defunct medical testing company LabMD. Back then,…
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Chief Administrative Law Judge Refuses to Swallow FTC’s Section 5 Interpretation in LabMD Ruling
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Already many blogs and articles have been written on Chief Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell’s November 13, 2015 92-page decision exonerating LabMD from the FTC’s charges that it failed…
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Cyber-Sleuth or Cyber-Thief? LabMD Case Continues to Expose the Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly in Cyber-Security Developments
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LabMD, Inc. CEO Michael J. Daugherty continues to doggedly defend LabMD against an action brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against LabMD based on Section 5 of the FTC…
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Risky (Health Care) Business: Disclosure of FTC Data Security Enforcement Potential to Investors and Other Third Parties
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Readers of this blog know that we have been tracking the FTC’s recent data security enforcement activities with a particular focus on the FTC v. LabMD case. As reported by…
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Will Unearthing the FTC’s Data Security Standards Help the Health Care Industry?
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As a regulatory lawyer, I frequently find myself parsing words and phrases crafted by legislators and agencies that, all too often, are frustratingly vague or contradictory when applied to a…
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Wild West Data Breach Sheriff Wins a Round Back East
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LabMD is not the only company that has tried to buck the FTC’s assertion of authority over data security breaches. Wyndham Worldwide Corp. has spent the past year contesting the…
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