Protecting US Consumer Data Just The Tip Of Online Privacy Iceberg, Says FTC’s Slaughter

At NAD conference, Commissioner Slaughter identified “erroneous points of conventional wisdom that tend to undergird legal and policy debate about digital surveillance,” starting with privacy being “the key issue” and including “the FTC is toothless, absent new federal legislation.”

• Source: Alamy

Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Kelly Slaughter came to a recent US industry self-regulation conference not to confirm expectations concerning the agency’s enforcement authorities but to dispel myths about limits to its capabilities, particularly over online advertising.

Slaughter targeted “assumptions, some of which in practice operate more like dogmas, that I believe are particularly in need of challenge in the online advertising system” in a keynote presentation on 1 October

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