FTC chair: Agency reassessing rules amid current U.S. privacy landscape
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Kyle Brasseur2022-04-14T14:28:00
The Federal Trade Commission is considering new rulemaking around commercial surveillance and lax data security practices while assessing whether other laws in place need to be updated, agency Chair Lina Khan said in a recent speech.
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