It was billed as the “toughest debate in town,” and Meal vs. Mithal did not disappoint. At the IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit in early April, Omer Tene, VP of Research and Education at the IAPP, moderated a discussion between Douglas Meal, partner at Ropes & Gray, and Maneesha Mithal, associate director for the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection at the Federal Trade Commission. Meal and Mithal were at odds as they debated the scope of the FTC’s authority under Section 5 of the FTC Act, and, particularly, FTC v. Wyndham. Kevin Burke, CIPP/US, CIPT, was in the front row and details all the action for The Privacy Advisor.
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