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LabMD v. FTC: A David Against Goliath Story
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Mike Daugherty is the CEO of LabMD, a medical testing lab. He has spent most of the last decade defending his company against charges that it had deficient cybersecurity practices. The early years of this battle are recorded in his book, "The Devil Inside the Beltway".In so doing, he has become the only litigant to challenge the basic authority that underlies more than 200 enforcement actions relating to cybersecurity and online privacy that the FTC has brought over the past 15 years. Every one of the 200+ litigants before him including some of the largest companies in the world have settled with the FTC, creating an unquestioned and untested belief that the FTC has broad authority to regulate in these areas.
Following oral arguments last month before a panel of the 11thCircuit Court of Appeals, it seems entirely possible that he willprevail. In so doing, he may well topple key pillars of the FTCs cybersecurity and online privacy edifice.
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Featuring:
MichaelJ. Daugherty,Founder, President and CEO, LabMD
- Gus Hurwitz,Assistant Professor of Law, Nebraska College of Law
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