"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled a case with clothing and accessory vendor Guess Inc., in which the agency had accused the company of not taking appropriate measures to secure its Guess.com Web site."
Not the first time the FTC has gone after a company for exposing customer data, they also slapped the hands of MSFT for Passport issues and Eli Lilly for shipping out an email with the email addresses of almost 700 Prozac users, but this is notable because Guess is a clothes merchant. So anyone collecting personal data on a web site needs to address their security and privacy architectures to avoid similar cases against themselves in future. Goes without saying that they should be doing this anyway, but if fear of FTC notice gets folks to take the issue more seriously, that's as Martha would say, "a good thing."
Posted by Diana at June 20, 2003 07:14 AM