January 12, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission's first-of-its-kind settlement with toymaker VTech over the breach of children's personal information indicates that the commission under Republican leadership will likely only ramp up established efforts to aggressively police the emerging internet of things and demand reasonable data security for a range of sensitive information, attorneys say.
January 08, 2018
Children's toymaker VTech Electronics Ltd. agreed to pay $650,000 Monday to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission stemming from a 2015 data breach in which the personal information of children, including pictures and home addresses, were made vulnerable to a hacker.