The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School’s new white paper explores the third-party audits required for Google and Facebook under the 2012 Federal Trade Commission consent orders, contrasting the FTC’s expectations for the audits versus the “attestations” the FTC receives. Megan Gray, Stanford CIS nonresidential fellow and author of “Understanding and Improving Privacy ‘Audits’ under FTC Orders,” writes that the FTC should reject the vague and self-selected reporting provided and identifies avenues for improving FTC privacy assessments. Gray writes, “Simply 'staying the course' puts consumers — and potentially democracy writ large — in an untenable situation, with real-world consequences.” 
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