The FTC’s unfairness authority can continue to be a useful enforcement tool in holding social media companies liable for harming teens, former FTC Chair Lina Khan wrote in a Stanford Law Review article with former Consumer Protection Bureau Director Samuel Levine and former Chief Technologist Stephanie Nguyen.
Courts should be careful about using privacy-related remedies in antitrust cases because enforcement goals differ in the two policy areas, former FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen said Wednesday during the Future of Privacy Forum’s DC Privacy Forum 2025.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan met with members on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
The FTC finalized a settlement with GoDaddy over allegations that the domain registry failed to implement proper security measures, which prompted data breaches, the commission said Wednesday. Under the order, GoDaddy cannot make misrepresentations about its security or compliance with privacy or security programs. In addition, it must establish an information-security program and hire a third-party assessor to review it.
FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., will headline the FTC’s June 4 workshop on child online safety, the commission announced Monday.
The FTC will delay enforcement of some recent changes to its Negative Option Rule until July 14 to allow regulated entities additional time to comply, the agency said in a statement Friday.
DOJ’s proposed antitrust remedies against Google could force the company to “finally compete on protecting consumer privacy,” FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Deputy Director Katherine White said Friday.
Companies participating in the FTC’s children’s privacy safe harbor program should review and update websites and service public notices by July 21, Davis Wright Tremaine attorneys said in a Monday post.
Executive power ultimately rests with the president, and firing subordinate officers is the most direct method of exercising this power, so President Donald Trump was within his right to fire FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, the Christian Employers Alliance argued in a brief with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday.
Companies should consider taking concrete action to comply with forthcoming changes to the FTC’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rule, compliance attorneys at Paul Hastings said Thursday.