The Federal Trade Commission issued its report on improving mobile security update practices (‘the Report’). Melissa Maalouf spoke with DataGuidance about the Report and said, “While the Report is just ‘guidance’ and not law, the FTC often looks to the recommendations in its guidance documents as factors to consider when evaluating whether a company’s privacy and/or security practices constitute an unfair or deceptive act or practice under the FTC’s broad enforcement authority under Section 5 of the FTC Act of 1914 […] It is very likely that the recommendations in the Report will be taken into account by the FTC in analysing future data security/breach cases involving security vulnerabilities that were not patched but could have been.”
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