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FTC Fines Software Vendor Over False Data Encryption Claims (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on from the could-have-been-golf-ball-detectors dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined a software vendor for lying about its product's encryption capabilities, despite being publicly warned by US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) not to do so. The software vendor is Henry Schein, who deliberately ignored CERT and FTC warnings and continued to sell its CRM for dentists, even if it knew it did not comply with HIPAA rules. The vendor got "only" a $250,000 fine.

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  1. not scarequotes needed by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 5, Informative

    yes, they were only fined $250K. Henry Schein is a multibillion dollar multinational company. $250K is "cost of business" expense because they make millions selling their software. this isn't even a slap on the wrist.

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