CIPP/US: Certified Information Privacy Professional/United StatesDemo

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What was distinctive about the action that the Federal Trade Commission brought against B.J.’s Wholesale Club in 2005?

A It made third-party audits a penalty for policy violations.
B It was based on matters of fairness rather than deception.
C It was the first substantial U.S.-EU Safe Harbor enforcement.
D It made user consent mandatory after any revisions of policy.

Explanation

The action was the FTC’s first data-security enforcement case grounded in unfairness rather than deception: inadequate safeguards for consumer information were alleged to cause substantial, unavoidable consumer injury, even though B.J.’s had not made an express security promise.

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