The Federal Trade Commission has submitted comment on the preliminary draft of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy Through Enterprise Risk Management.

In its comments, staff of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection commended NIST for proposing a voluntary tool aimed at helping organizations start a dialogue about managing privacy risks within their organizations.

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