FTC Holds Workshop on Informational Injury
On December 12, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a workshop to examine consumer injury in the context of privacy and data security. The motivation for the workshop, according to Acting FTC Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen, was to help the FTC better understand consumer informational injury, weigh effectively the benefits of intervention against its inevitable costs, and to help guide the future application of the substantial injury prong of the FTC’s unfairness standard.
