Congress should pass a federal privacy law that grants the FTC exclusive enforcement authority and doesn’t include a private right of action, Free State Foundation’s Andrew Long said Friday.
Incorporating children's and teen safety into privacy has led to a variety of approaches under state law, said two Latham Watkins attorneys on a panel at the Privacy + Security Forum spring academy Friday. An age-gate is the best way for companies to ensure compliance with all of them, they added.
The global health care and life sciences sectors face major regulatory challenges in the U.S. and Europe from data transfer and cybersecurity laws, speakers said Thursday during an IAPP webinar.
While the Biden administration’s FTC focused on platform accountability for child safety, the Trump FTC appears far more concerned with strengthening parental control to protect kids' privacy and shield them from online harm, former FTC officials said Thursday at the Privacy + Security Forum Spring Academy.
No matter how aggressively the FTC under the Trump administration pursues privacy cases, state attorneys general are clearly ready to band together and enforce state laws, Safeguard Privacy General Counsel Andy Hepburn said Wednesday at the Privacy + Security Forum.
Former FTC Commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya pushed back on the president’s claims that he has the constitutional right to fire them. In a reply brief Monday, the two again asked a district court to grant summary judgment in their favor.
A California Assembly committee cleared a surveillance pricing bill Tuesday that would prohibit companies from using personal data to set customized prices for consumers.
Tech companies are able to degrade product privacy protections without repercussions when "excessive regulation" insulates them from competition, the FTC said in a joint letter with DOJ on Monday.
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.