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The FTC will update its children’s privacy rules in “some form” that complies with President Donald Trump’s regulatory agenda, Chairman Andrew Ferguson told us Tuesday.
Businesses should emphasize “risk-based due diligence” in their privacy programs in response to recent trends from the FTC and state attorneys general, the Interactive Advertising Bureau said Monday in an International Association of Privacy Professionals blog post.
Recently fired FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter should testify at Wednesday’s subcommittee hearing, House Commerce Committee ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., and Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said Monday.
FTC Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said during an interview aired Thursday that he will “soon” file a lawsuit against the Trump administration for his “illegal” firing.
Though the global flow of data and information is the basis for so many systems, having protections that ensure foreign adversaries and other bad actors can’t gain access to the data is crucial, said a panel of privacy lawyers and security experts at the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute Friday. Accordingly, Justice's new data transfer rule is playing a major role, panelists said.
The emergence of state privacy laws means that there are several standards or policies that companies and businesses must follow when defining and de-identifying sensitive information, said a panel of experts at the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute event Thursday.
The European Commission has "seen the news about the dismissal of two FTC Commissioners," an EC spokesperson emailed us Thursday. "We will follow closely any appointment procedure and judicial proceedings concerning members of the FTC." The dismissals have sparked uncertainty about the future of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework which enables trans-Atlantic flows of personal data (see 2503190046).
Most California Assembly Privacy Committee members supported legislation meant to stop so-called “surveillance pricing” during a livestreamed hearing Tuesday. However, some lawmakers said they believe market forces could deal with stores that try to set higher prices for individual consumers based on their personal information.
Multiple state attorneys general signaled that they will flex their privacy enforcement muscles in the wake of President Donald Trump's Tuesday firing of Democratic FTC Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter. Privacy experts said the development raises new concerns about the fate of trans-Atlantic personal data transfers and the legitimacy of potential FTC rulemaking decisions.