The Federal Trade Commission is hosting a roundtable today on "informational injury" to explore the different types of injuries that consumers face after a data breach. Earlier this year, the FTC was handed the views of a federal court in an agency claim against internet-connected camera maker D-Link. In the case, the court rejected the FTC's claim that the company did not take reasonable steps to secure its devices. "Even if the court is right about what's needed to state an unfairness claim under the FTC Act, it is obviously quite wrong about good data security practice," write Davis Wright Tremaine Privacy and Security Practice Chair Christin McMeley, CIPP/US, and Partner Chris Savage, CIPP/US, CIPT. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, McMeley and Savage discuss the issues around consumer injury and the difficulty of providing good IoT data security. Editor's Note: Angelique Carson, CIPP/US, is reporting from today's FTC workshop. 
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