The FTC should end its data privacy rulemaking process because the agency lacks authority and Congress is the proper venue to settle the privacy debate, Senate Republicans told the agency in comments on an Advanced NPRM. A bipartisan group of 33 state attorneys general urged the commission Thursday to issue a rule to better protect consumers.
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Karl Herchenroeder, Associate Editor, is a technology policy journalist for publications including Communications Daily. Born in Rockville, Maryland, he joined the Warren Communications News staff in 2018. He began his journalism career in 2012 at the Aspen Times in Aspen, Colorado, where he covered city government. After that, he covered the nuclear industry for ExchangeMonitor in Washington. You can follow Herchenroeder on Twitter: @karlherk
The priority during the lame-duck session for Senate Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and ranking member Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is to pass kids privacy legislation, staffers for their offices said Wednesday.
The FTC should tread carefully if it's considering banning certain types of social media ads for children, advertisers and advocates said in interviews this week, citing the potential for legal challenges.
The FTC voted 3-1 Thursday to explore issuing rules combating fake online reviews. Commissioner Christine Wilson dissented, saying the FTC’s “avalanche” of rulemakings risks the agency becoming more of a legislature than a law enforcer.
The FTC likely needs to intervene on multiple fronts to protect children against increasingly blurred lines between social media advertising and organic content, Chair Lina Khan said Wednesday.
The new EU-U.S. trans-Atlantic data flow agreement goes far beyond previous deals by allowing EU residents privacy redress and introducing new legal concepts in the U.S., government officials from Washington and Brussels said Monday.
If Congress passes the House Commerce Committee’s bipartisan privacy bill, it would need to double the FTC’s budget for the agency to meet the new law’s requirements, FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said Thursday.
Several Supreme Court justices showed skepticism Wednesday that Andy Warhol made fair use in repurposing a photographer’s portrait of musician Prince and selling it as his own transformative work in the 1980s (see 2208210001).
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative should add Meta to its 2022 Notorious Markets List (see 2202170053) due to the proliferation of counterfeit goods on platforms like Facebook Marketplace, Instagram and WhatsApp, trade groups told the agency in comments last week.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday initiating finalization of a new cross-border data agreement with the EU. Industry applauded the EO, but advocates say the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) doesn’t resolve outstanding data privacy issues that led the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to invalidate the previous two agreements.