The US FTC seeks public comment on federal online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children
on our location, our health, what we read online, who we know, what we buy. @FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security practices. https://www.ftc.gov/... Alfred / @alfredwkng : Breaking: The FTC is considering rulemaking on commercial surveillance, plans to tackle topics including location data, algorithmic bias, targeted advertising https://www.ftc.gov/... Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal : This FTC rulemaking is a win for consumers, promising protections for privacy & personal data, & accountability for violating them. Big Tech's exploitation of private info, anti-competitive behavior & data breaches have created a crisis that demands action.https://www.ftc.gov/... Karen Kornbluh / @karenkornbluh : Big news today from @linakhanFTC and her expert team including @oliviersylvain https://www.ftc.gov/... Rebecca Kelly Slaughter / @rkslaughterftc : Today is such an important day, I'm coming out of Twitter hibernation to share some thoughts on the @FTC's big announcement - we're opening a record to explore rulemaking in the areas of commercial surveillance and data security. My full statement: https://www.ftc.gov/... Christine S. Wilson / @cswilsonftc : I have zero confidence that @linakhanFTC will lead a rulemaking process that will guard against improper overreach and harm to the agency, and ultimately consumers, given her actions as @FTC Chair and public statements. Noah J. Phillips / @ftcphillips : Finally, the ANPR reaches well outside the FTC's bailiwick and gives short shrift to important privacy issues and data security. /4 Noah J. Phillips / @ftcphillips : This “advanced notice” provides no notice whatsoever of where the FTC may be going, which undermines the rulemaking process. /2 @neil_chilson : I've read much of the @FTC's #privacy work. I've helped write some of it! I've seen conclusory early drafts. Most final products contain stuff I don't agree with. But I've never seen a final FTC privacy document as one-sided & conclusory as today's ANPRM. https://www.ftc.gov/... https://twitter.com/... Christine S. Wilson / @cswilsonftc : I commend @SenatorWicker @FrankPallone @RepSchakowsky @CathyMcMorrisRodgers & @RepGusBilirakis for their work on the American Data Privacy Protection Act — a sound, comprehensive and nuanced bill. I hope it becomes law. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/ ... Noah J. Phillips / @ftcphillips : At a time when Congress is considering privacy legislation seriously, the ANPR makes the FTC a legislature; which it is not. /3 John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton : That rustling sound you hear? Money counters going *brrrrrr* at DC lobbying firms. The industry is prepared to spend every unethically gained dollar to stave off regulation. Let's hope the @FTC & @linakhanFTC have our backs. https://twitter.com/... Christine S. Wilson / @cswilsonftc : I share @MarshaBlackburn's concern about @FTC majority's choice to proceed with a sprawling rulemaking while Congress debates a bicameral, bipartisan privacy bill. It's never been closer to passing privacy legislation—tragic if @linakhanFTC's FTC derails what FTC has long sought. https://twitter.com/... Christine S. Wilson / @cswilsonftc : Today @FTC announces a privacy ANPRM. I have grave concerns about information asymmetries in privacy & data security. But an @FTC rule is highly inferior to Congressional action — we need federal privacy legislation. I dissented. https://www.ftc.gov/... Tim Wu / @superwuster : Pay attention to this: the FTC's beginning of a rulemaking on commercial surveillance — pursuant to the EO on competition. https://www.ftc.gov/... @brianboland : 1/ This is an important step @FTC is starting to evaluate creating rules around data tracking and data use. I helped build advanced ad targeting systems and would have benefitted from strong public rules on what is acceptable and what isn't. @linakhanFTC https://twitter.com/... Ron Wyden / @ronwyden : I applaud the FTC for taking action to push for strong national privacy regulations. This is an important step in the fight to protect Americans from corporations leeching personal data from their devices. https://twitter.com/... @brianboland : @linakhanFTC The algorithmic component is critically important. People say “show us the algorithms” but without understanding or guiding the underlying data you can't understand the algorithms. And plenty of research demonstrates unintentional algo biases. These will get worse without rules. @ftc : The Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asks a series of questions about practices related to commercial surveillance and data security. The topic areas and the questions are listed here: https://www.ftc.gov/... #privacy #PrivacyTwitter /9 Craig Newmark / @craignewmark : The FTC announces that it is starting a rulemaking process on data privacy. In the absence of legislation, this could offer Americans clear legal protections for the first time. https://www.ftc.gov/... Alvaro Bedoya / @bedoyaftc : 1/ We talk a lot about the latest implications of the latest technology. I think we need to take a step back and ask: Who's being left behind? A few points from my first speech as commissioner @FTC🧵 Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer : All of this is great. Including the call for a strong federal privacy law. https://twitter.com/... Alvaro Bedoya / @bedoyaftc : 4/ How do we protect against stalking apps? (Q.12) How do we make protect against fraud in languages other than English? (58) How can we protect privacy when a snapshot of a person's face, or a few seconds of their voice, can identify them? (37-38) URL:https://www.ftc.gov/... Tatum Hunter / @tatum_hunter_ : FTC says it may “crack down” on “commercial surveillance,” including companies that collect and share “family and friend networks, browsing and purchase histories, location and physical movements, and a wide range of other personal details.” https://www.ftc.gov/... Alex Russell / @slightlylate : This underscores how broken Apple's marketing on privacy is; the problem is data at rest, not just in-the-moment collection. The solution will involve curbs on collection, but not technical controls...at least not principally. https://twitter.com/... Lina Khan / @linakhanftc : 5. As we assess whether to issue rules & what these rules should look like, we are eager to hear from the public on a range of issues, including harmful practices, specific harms to children, and algorithmic discrimination. A list of topics is posted here: https://www.ftc.gov/... @epicprivacy : Today, the @FTC took the first step in a rulemaking processes on commercial #surveillance and data security practices. EPIC has repeatedly called on the FTC to exercise its rulemaking authority to better protect consumer privacy. https://epic.org/... @iwillleavenow : Behold, the FTC advance notice of proposed rulemaking on commercial surveillance is live! https://epic.org/... Roger McNamee / @moonalice : Brilliant thread by @linakhanFTC explaining @FTC investigation of commercial surveillance and monetization. FTC consumer protection division has a mandate and an obligation to stop surveillance capitalism as a business model. https://t.co/QXW8L1S0D8 Menaka Doshi / @menakadoshi : U.S. @FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security practices. https://twitter.com/... Robin Berjon / @robinberjon : I would be very interested in seeing the @w3ctag file a comment on this, based on the work it's been doing on privacy. https://twitter.com/... Jeffrey Chester / @chesterj1 : Some at #FTC gripe about today's commercial #surveillance proposed #privacy rulemaking. But what's so important is that after decades (& I have been leading charge at @FTC on this since mid 1990's really), there are people at agency who both understand the dimensions and impact Noah J. Phillips / @ftcphillips : The @FTC's ANPR on “Commercial Surveillance” fails on its own terms and recasts the agency as a legislature. Read my dissent here: /1 https://www.ftc.gov/... @cendemtech : 👏👏 @CenDemTech is pleased to see the @FTC launch a proceeding to explore rules to address harmful online commercial data & security practices. https://cdt.org/... https://twitter.com/... Maya Zehavi / @mayazi : Big!!! The FTC rethinking commercial surveilance & data collecting as: 1. an unregulated market of identity data for targeted ads 2. dark patterns that make surveillance conditional 3. identity data as a discriminatory tool https://twitter.com/... Senator Roger Wicker / @senatorwicker : To get real consumer #DataPrivacy protections, Congress must act. @FTC commissioners have acknowledged legislation, not regulation, is the preferred way to achieve these protections. Caitlin Fennessy / @cdfen : The FTC announces its Notice of Propose Rulemaking on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security! See here: https://www.ftc.gov/.... News conference at noon today - press release and info here: https://www.ftc.gov/.... See chain for more. Jennifer Huddleston / @jrhuddles : Congress finally has momentum on privacy (again). Meanwhile without a clear delegation the FTC announced a notice of proposed rulemaking. @CSWilsonFTC & @FTCPhillips dissents discuss the problems w/ this approach particularly in relation to Congress and the agency's authority https://twitter.com/... Alvaro Bedoya / @bedoyaftc : Our nation is the world's unquestioned leader on technology and the information economy. Yet we're almost alone in our lack of meaningful protections for this infrastructure. Today, @FTC begins to explore rules to change that. My statement: https://www.ftc.gov/... Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : The FTC's privacy rulemaking could also face legal headwinds as federal courts grow increasingly critical of agencies flexing their powers https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Cristiano Lima / @viacristiano : Inbox: Sen. Wicker, the top Republican on Senate Commerce, takes a shot at the FTC's newly announced privacy rulemaking move “FTC commissioners have acknowledged legislation, not regulation, is the preferred way to achieve these protections.” https://twitter.com/... Graham Webster / @gwbstr : A potentially Big Deal for US data privacy and governance https://twitter.com/... Matt Kent / @kent_pubcitizen : The FTC's privacy rulemaking is a huge deal and a very welcome action to protect the public. You may be wondering why the FTC release sounds non-committal or why the rule may take so long to finalize? Quick thread 🧵 (1/5) https://twitter.com/... Ed Markey / @senmarkey : We have reached a crisis point for children and teens' well-being online. I'm glad to see @linakhanFTC and @FTC working to give users the privacy protection they deserve. Congress must also pass my legislation to further protect young people online. We must act now. https://twitter.com/... Rebecca Klar / @rebeccaklar_ : As Congress aims to pass a comprehensive data privacy bill, the FTC is launching an effort to review and update data privacy protections Despite bipartisan support for privacy updates, the decision will likely face blowback from GOP who say the update should come from Congress https://twitter.com/... John Scott-Railton / @jsrailton : Good. And very overdue. It's time to stop the unregulated collection & mining of our personal information for profit. https://twitter.com/... @demandprogress : We know that massive corporations track & collect our data at a massive scale. Often, we don't know when it's collected or how it will be used. Props to the @FTC & @linakhanFTC for pursuing a rule-making process to determine if and how rules can take on these security concerns. https://twitter.com/... Dan Caprio / @dwcaprio : The FTC leads with “ harmful commercial surveillance.” Lots of commentary on potential harm without actual examples. https://www.ftc.gov/... Jon Schweppe / @jonschweppe : This is a big deal. https://www.ftc.gov/... @publicknowledge : We applaud the @FTC for initiating a privacy rulemaking. For too long, companies have been allowed to unfairly and deceptively use our data for their own gain. We hope this process moves quickly and we look forward to submitting comments.➡️https:// www.ftc.gov/... Joe Duball / @jduballreports : BREAKING: It seems the FTC publishing on privacy rulemaking today is an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which it's unofficially done twice since December 2021. The advance notice provides for a 60-day consultation period. Buckle up again https://www.ftc.gov/... Mike Swift / @swiftstories : The @FTC has voted 3-2 to consider rulemaking “to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security.” Interesting choice of words in “surveillance” rather than #privacy: https://www.ftc.gov/... John Hendel / @johnhendel : FTC Chair Lina Khan on privacy: “Our goal today is to begin building a robust public record to inform whether the FTC should issue rules to address commercial surveillance and data security practices and what those rules should potentially look like...” https://www.ftc.gov/... Jeffrey Vagle / @jvagle : Some good news: The FTC is seeking comment on a wide range of concerns about commercial surveillance practices. https://www.ftc.gov/... Cat Zakrzewski / @cat_zakrzewski : The FTC starts a long-anticipated process to craft new privacy regulations, calling the public to submit comments on whether new rules are needed to address the “commercial surveillance economy"https://www.ftc.gov/ ... Jessica B. Lee / @lawgirl821 : And just like that, the rulemaking process has begun with a focus on commercial surveillance and lax data security. The FTC will take comments for 60 days. Just a reminder - rulemaking is more of a marathon than a sprint. We have a long process ahead. https://www.ftc.gov/... Lina Khan / @linakhanftc : 3. Indeed, research suggests that over 80% of Americans believe they have very little to no control over the data companies collect on them and that they believe the potential risks of companies collecting data about them outweigh the benefits. https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... Lina Khan / @linakhanftc : 2. Technological advancements have yielded dazzling new capabilities and conveniences—but also tools that enable new forms of persistent tracking & surveillance. @FTC must ensure our approach keeps pace with these new market realities. https://www.ftc.gov/... Lina Khan / @linakhanftc : 4. Certain business models seem to incentivize endless hoovering up of user data, and there's been a vast expansion in how this data is used. Given the continued digitization of our economy, we are concerned that unlawful practices may be prevalent. https://www.ftc.gov/... @privacymatters : .@FTC “Commercial surveillance is the business of collecting, analyzing, and profiting from information about people. Mass surveillance has heightened the risks and stakes of data breaches, deception, manipulation, and other abuses” https://twitter.com/... Roger McNamee / @moonalice : .@linakhanFTC announced that FTC has begun to investigate commercial surveillance and the monetization of data. Consumers need protection against predatory surveillance and downstream monetization. https://twitter.com/... Alfred / @alfredwkng : The questions the FTC are seeking public comment on: https://twitter.com/...
1. Firms track & collect data on Americans at a stunning scale—on our location, our health, what we read online, who we know, what we buy. @FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security practices. https://www.ftc.gov/...
Breaking: The FTC is considering rulemaking on commercial surveillance, plans to tackle topics including location data, algorithmic bias, targeted advertising https://www.ftc.gov/...
Today is such an important day, I'm coming out of Twitter hibernation to share some thoughts on the @FTC's big announcement - we're opening a record to explore rulemaking in the areas of commercial surveillance and data security. My full statement: https://www.ftc.gov/...
I have zero confidence that @linakhanFTC will lead a rulemaking process that will guard against improper overreach and harm to the agency, and ultimately consumers, given her actions as @FTC Chair and public statements.
This FTC rulemaking is a win for consumers, promising protections for privacy & personal data, & accountability for violating them. Big Tech's exploitation of private info, anti-competitive behavior & data breaches have created a crisis that demands action.https://www.ftc.gov/...
The Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asks a series of questions about practices related to commercial surveillance and data security. The topic areas and the questions are listed here: https://www.ftc.gov/... #privacy #PrivacyTwitter /9
The FTC announces that it is starting a rulemaking process on data privacy. In the absence of legislation, this could offer Americans clear legal protections for the first time. https://www.ftc.gov/...
@linakhanFTC The algorithmic component is critically important. People say “show us the algorithms” but without understanding or guiding the underlying data you can't understand the algorithms. And plenty of research demonstrates unintentional algo biases. These will get worse wi…
I've read much of the @FTC's #privacy work. I've helped write some of it! I've seen conclusory early drafts. Most final products contain stuff I don't agree with. But I've never seen a final FTC privacy document as one-sided & conclusory as today's ANPRM. https://www.ftc.gov/... …
I commend @SenatorWicker @FrankPallone @RepSchakowsky @CathyMcMorrisRodgers & @RepGusBilirakis for their work on the American Data Privacy Protection Act — a sound, comprehensive and nuanced bill. I hope it becomes law. https://www.commerce.senate.gov/ ...
1/ We talk a lot about the latest implications of the latest technology. I think we need to take a step back and ask: Who's being left behind? A few points from my first speech as commissioner @FTC🧵
That rustling sound you hear? Money counters going *brrrrrr* at DC lobbying firms. The industry is prepared to spend every unethically gained dollar to stave off regulation. Let's hope the @FTC & @linakhanFTC have our backs. https://twitter.com/...
I share @MarshaBlackburn's concern about @FTC majority's choice to proceed with a sprawling rulemaking while Congress debates a bicameral, bipartisan privacy bill. It's never been closer to passing privacy legislation—tragic if @linakhanFTC's FTC derails what FTC has long sought.…
Today @FTC announces a privacy ANPRM. I have grave concerns about information asymmetries in privacy & data security. But an @FTC rule is highly inferior to Congressional action — we need federal privacy legislation. I dissented. https://www.ftc.gov/...
I applaud the FTC for taking action to push for strong national privacy regulations. This is an important step in the fight to protect Americans from corporations leeching personal data from their devices. https://twitter.com/...
1/ This is an important step @FTC is starting to evaluate creating rules around data tracking and data use. I helped build advanced ad targeting systems and would have benefitted from strong public rules on what is acceptable and what isn't. @linakhanFTC https://twitter.com/...
4/ How do we protect against stalking apps? (Q.12) How do we make protect against fraud in languages other than English? (58) How can we protect privacy when a snapshot of a person's face, or a few seconds of their voice, can identify them? (37-38) URL:https://www.ftc.gov/...
FTC says it may “crack down” on “commercial surveillance,” including companies that collect and share “family and friend networks, browsing and purchase histories, location and physical movements, and a wide range of other personal details.” https://www.ftc.gov/...
This underscores how broken Apple's marketing on privacy is; the problem is data at rest, not just in-the-moment collection. The solution will involve curbs on collection, but not technical controls...at least not principally. https://twitter.com/...
5. As we assess whether to issue rules & what these rules should look like, we are eager to hear from the public on a range of issues, including harmful practices, specific harms to children, and algorithmic discrimination. A list of topics is posted here: https://www.ftc.gov/...
Today, the @FTC took the first step in a rulemaking processes on commercial #surveillance and data security practices. EPIC has repeatedly called on the FTC to exercise its rulemaking authority to better protect consumer privacy. https://epic.org/...
Brilliant thread by @linakhanFTC explaining @FTC investigation of commercial surveillance and monetization. FTC consumer protection division has a mandate and an obligation to stop surveillance capitalism as a business model. https://t.co/QXW8L1S0D8
Some at #FTC gripe about today's commercial #surveillance proposed #privacy rulemaking. But what's so important is that after decades (& I have been leading charge at @FTC on this since mid 1990's really), there are people at agency who both understand the dimensions and impact
The @FTC's ANPR on “Commercial Surveillance” fails on its own terms and recasts the agency as a legislature. Read my dissent here: /1 https://www.ftc.gov/...
👏👏 @CenDemTech is pleased to see the @FTC launch a proceeding to explore rules to address harmful online commercial data & security practices. https://cdt.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Big!!! The FTC rethinking commercial surveilance & data collecting as: 1. an unregulated market of identity data for targeted ads 2. dark patterns that make surveillance conditional 3. identity data as a discriminatory tool https://twitter.com/...
To get real consumer #DataPrivacy protections, Congress must act. @FTC commissioners have acknowledged legislation, not regulation, is the preferred way to achieve these protections.
The FTC announces its Notice of Propose Rulemaking on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security! See here: https://www.ftc.gov/.... News conference at noon today - press release and info here: https://www.ftc.gov/.... See chain for more.
Congress finally has momentum on privacy (again). Meanwhile without a clear delegation the FTC announced a notice of proposed rulemaking. @CSWilsonFTC & @FTCPhillips dissents discuss the problems w/ this approach particularly in relation to Congress and the agency's authority htt…
Our nation is the world's unquestioned leader on technology and the information economy. Yet we're almost alone in our lack of meaningful protections for this infrastructure. Today, @FTC begins to explore rules to change that. My statement: https://www.ftc.gov/...
The FTC's privacy rulemaking could also face legal headwinds as federal courts grow increasingly critical of agencies flexing their powers https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Inbox: Sen. Wicker, the top Republican on Senate Commerce, takes a shot at the FTC's newly announced privacy rulemaking move “FTC commissioners have acknowledged legislation, not regulation, is the preferred way to achieve these protections.” https://twitter.com/...
The FTC's privacy rulemaking is a huge deal and a very welcome action to protect the public. You may be wondering why the FTC release sounds non-committal or why the rule may take so long to finalize? Quick thread 🧵 (1/5) https://twitter.com/...
We have reached a crisis point for children and teens' well-being online. I'm glad to see @linakhanFTC and @FTC working to give users the privacy protection they deserve. Congress must also pass my legislation to further protect young people online. We must act now. https://twitt…
As Congress aims to pass a comprehensive data privacy bill, the FTC is launching an effort to review and update data privacy protections Despite bipartisan support for privacy updates, the decision will likely face blowback from GOP who say the update should come from Congress ht…
We know that massive corporations track & collect our data at a massive scale. Often, we don't know when it's collected or how it will be used. Props to the @FTC & @linakhanFTC for pursuing a rule-making process to determine if and how rules can take on these security concerns. h…
We applaud the @FTC for initiating a privacy rulemaking. For too long, companies have been allowed to unfairly and deceptively use our data for their own gain. We hope this process moves quickly and we look forward to submitting comments.➡️https:// www.ftc.gov/...
BREAKING: It seems the FTC publishing on privacy rulemaking today is an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, which it's unofficially done twice since December 2021. The advance notice provides for a 60-day consultation period. Buckle up again https://www.ftc.gov/...
The @FTC has voted 3-2 to consider rulemaking “to crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security.” Interesting choice of words in “surveillance” rather than #privacy: https://www.ftc.gov/...
FTC Chair Lina Khan on privacy: “Our goal today is to begin building a robust public record to inform whether the FTC should issue rules to address commercial surveillance and data security practices and what those rules should potentially look like...” https://www.ftc.gov/...
The FTC starts a long-anticipated process to craft new privacy regulations, calling the public to submit comments on whether new rules are needed to address the “commercial surveillance economy"https://www.ftc.gov/ ...
And just like that, the rulemaking process has begun with a focus on commercial surveillance and lax data security. The FTC will take comments for 60 days. Just a reminder - rulemaking is more of a marathon than a sprint. We have a long process ahead. https://www.ftc.gov/...
3. Indeed, research suggests that over 80% of Americans believe they have very little to no control over the data companies collect on them and that they believe the potential risks of companies collecting data about them outweigh the benefits. https://www.pewresearch.org/ ...
2. Technological advancements have yielded dazzling new capabilities and conveniences—but also tools that enable new forms of persistent tracking & surveillance. @FTC must ensure our approach keeps pace with these new market realities. https://www.ftc.gov/...
4. Certain business models seem to incentivize endless hoovering up of user data, and there's been a vast expansion in how this data is used. Given the continued digitization of our economy, we are concerned that unlawful practices may be prevalent. https://www.ftc.gov/...
.@FTC “Commercial surveillance is the business of collecting, analyzing, and profiting from information about people. Mass surveillance has heightened the risks and stakes of data breaches, deception, manipulation, and other abuses” https://twitter.com/...
.@linakhanFTC announced that FTC has begun to investigate commercial surveillance and the monetization of data. Consumers need protection against predatory surveillance and downstream monetization. https://twitter.com/...