Court says the FTC can slap companies for getting hacked

Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in Wired, August 24, 2015

“The law has always imposed responsibility on companies for the care of their customers. When you’re in the restaurant you have to be protected against slips and falls or food-borne illness,” says Hoofnagle. “Data is just something new that companies have to protect if they want to bear the benefits of collecting it.”