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White Paper – IAPP Guide to FTC Privacy Enforcement
(May 2017) – This guide from the IAPP Westin Research Center describes the various paths the Federal Trade Commission may pursue when it brings privacy cases under its primary consumer protection authority, Section 5(a) of the FTC Act. The guide also discusses the various avenues that the FTC may pu...
FTC Enforcement of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework
IAPP Westin Fellow Anna Myers, CIPP/US, offers this study examining the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Safe Harbor enforcement record for practices and trends that may inform its efforts under the new Privacy Shield. Looking at the number of the FTC’s privacy cases through the years, and specifical...
The FTC and Privacy and Security Duties for the Cloud
In this essay, Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog argue that in Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act there is a remedy to the seeming lack of consumer control over data held by organizations in the cloud or with other third parties. Certain key cases from the emerging body of FTC enfor...
FTC chairman pleads with House subcommittee: 'No broad rulemaking authority'
At a hearing Wednesday at the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, lawmakers once again asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission what it needs to carry out its mandate on consumer protection and how a federal privacy bill could best support that mission. Committee Chairman Rep. Frank Pallone, D-N....
Big Tech’s Shift to Privacy
An overview of the technology sector’s public expressions of privacy initiatives and values.
Privacy is top-of-mind for technology companies and their consumers. Since Facebook’s data-sharing practices came under scrutiny following reporting on Cambridge Analytica, consumers and legislators have sh...