Data Analytics Company Settles with FTC Over Alleged Data Security Violations

Sheila A. Millar and Tracy P. Marshall of Keller & Heckman write: Third-party service providers are vital to many companies and they handle a wide range of business activities essential for companies to deliver their own offerings. But a company is not adequately protecting consumers if it fails to perform proper due diligence on service providers and contractually require them to employ appropriate security measures to protect sensitive personal information, as Ascension Data & Analytics, LLC (Ascension) discovered. Ascension, a data analytics company serving the mortgage industry, recently settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges that it violated the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act Safeguards Rule, as well as its own policies, when it neglected to vet the data security practices of a service provider and require the vendor to adequately protect personal information of mortgage holders. Read more on National Law Review.DataBreaches.netRead More