The FTC Lost Their Last Republican Commissioner. What Happens Next?
The FTC’s only remaining Republican commissioner just resigned — and political polarization is putting the agency in a pickle.
The FTC’s only remaining Republican commissioner just resigned — and political polarization is putting the agency in a pickle.
The US data privacy landscape is chaotic. The future of the recently proposed American Data Privacy and Protection Act is now decidedly up in the air, and states are passing their own privacy laws in the absence of a federal one, which makes compliance complicated. Federal agencies like the FTC are also trying to fill the data privacy rulemaking void.
You’ve probably heard the term “surveillance advertising” – used with increasing frequency – in reference to companies with an Orwellian agenda to keep tabs on you at all times. See the recently introduced Banning Surveillance Advertising Act. Minus the hyperbole, surveillance advertising is the practice of serving ads to individuals based on their personal information. But […]