Companies should conduct a comprehensive review to ensure they’re not sharing sensitive data about Americans with foreign adversaries and violating federal law, the FTC said Monday in letters to 13 data brokers.
Congress should pass legislation allowing the FTC to seek monetary relief under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act, the commission said in a congressional report issued Friday.
Though the FTC and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are unlikely to focus on health care websites and privacy in 2026, health care entities should self-regulate, Davis Wright lawyer Adam Greene said Wednesday.
A potential FTC rule amending COPPA would have a greater impact than an expected policy statement on age verification, attorneys at Wiley said in a post Friday.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson will speak at the agency’s Feb. 26 workshop examining consumer-injury issues with a focus on privacy preferences and data breach impacts, the agency said Friday (see 2601080039).
Representatives from Apple, Google and Meta will speak at the FTC’s Jan. 28 workshop on age-verification technology, the agency said Wednesday (see 2512080049).
WeatherTech founder David MacNeil has been nominated to serve as the third Republican commissioner at the FTC, the White House said Tuesday.
The FTC on Wednesday announced its finalized settlement with GM and OnStar over allegations the companies collected and sold consumers’ location data without proper consent (see 2501170068).
The FTC will host a Feb. 26 workshop examining consumer injury issues with a focus on privacy preferences and data breach impacts, the agency said Thursday.
The FTC should strengthen the data minimization requirements in its proposed settlement with education technology provider Illuminate Education, the Electronic Privacy Information Center said in comments posted Tuesday.