A Million Here, A Million There: Avast Sets the Record for the Highest Monetary Remedy for FTC Act Privacy Violations

Wyrick Robbins – It would be easy to skim past the Avast proposed consent agreement (or those in the X-Mode or InMarket cases) as just another example of FTC taking on “mass data collectors,” but the Avast case offers some key nuggets of guidance that all companies, whether or not they fall into that category, should heed.