In a speech to the Federal Communications Bar Association Tuesday, Federal Trade Commission Acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen announced the agency will host a workshop on informational injury Dec. 12. "I have three goals for this workshop," she said. "First, better identify the qualitatively different types of injury to consumers and businesses from privacy and data security incidents. Second, explore frameworks for how we might approach quantitatively measuring such injuries and estimate the risk of their occurrence. And third, better understand how consumers and businesses weigh these injuries and risks when evaluating the tradeoffs to sharing, collecting, storing, and using information. Ultimately, the goal is to inform our case selection and enforcement choices going forward." 
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