If a company's security standards are inadequate but the company says nothing about them, then the FTC is powerless.
Elizabeth Warren: “If a company's security standards are inadequate but the company says nothing about them, then the FTC is powerless.”
On the recordFebruary 2, 2014
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Warren highlights FTC's limitations in addressing inadequate data security standards.
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