Industry groups seek extended comment period for FTC privacy rulemaking

Mediapost reports a coalition of 19 advertising and business groups wrote the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to request an extension to the 60-day public consultation for the agency's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on commercial surveillance and lax data security. The groups, which included the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Association of National Advertisers, explained more time was needed to outline "economic impacts of a potential regulation, the multiple alternatives available to the FTC, and the significant (and potentially negative) downstream impacts of sweeping regulations."