Alvaro Bedoya, a privacy advocate and visiting professor of law at Georgetown, has been nominated as one of five commissioners to the Federal Trade Commission.
The White House announced Joe Biden’s nomination of Bedoya on Monday.
If confirmed, Bedoya likely will be another staunch advocate of taking robust action to rein in the power of big tech platforms. He is the founding director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. The White House noted that his Bedoya’s research and report on facial recognition technology that paved the way for new restrictions on the use of the practice.
Bedoya would succeed Rohit Chopra, who Biden has selected to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Biden nominated another advocate of strong enforcement, Lina Kahn, who has been critical of the growth of large tech platforms, and appointed her to chair the commission after her confirmation. Among other things,...
The White House announced Joe Biden’s nomination of Bedoya on Monday.
If confirmed, Bedoya likely will be another staunch advocate of taking robust action to rein in the power of big tech platforms. He is the founding director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. The White House noted that his Bedoya’s research and report on facial recognition technology that paved the way for new restrictions on the use of the practice.
Bedoya would succeed Rohit Chopra, who Biden has selected to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Biden nominated another advocate of strong enforcement, Lina Kahn, who has been critical of the growth of large tech platforms, and appointed her to chair the commission after her confirmation. Among other things,...
- 9/13/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Turns out bipartisanship isn’t dead, it’s just rare. Unfortunately, for tech titans Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple, members of both parties seem to have agreed that it’s past time to crack down on the anti-competitive practices that have flourished in the industry. Exhibit A: Last week, Democrats unveiled five bills, each with a Republican co-sponsor, designed to reign in tech power. Trustbuster Lina Khan’s Senate confirmation to the Federal Trade Commission Tuesday is Exhibit B.
Khan, championed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-ma) as “the leading intellectual...
Khan, championed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-ma) as “the leading intellectual...
- 6/15/2021
- by Tessa Stuart
- Rollingstone.com
Lina Khan, who had a key role in a House subcommittee antitrust investigation of major tech giants, has been nominated by President Joe Biden to serve on the Federal Trade Commission.
Biden’s selection of Khan is a further indication that his administration will take an aggressive approach to scrutinizing antitrust issues. Khan was the author of the influential Yale Law Journal study, Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox. She then helped lead the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee investigation of competition in digital markets, culminating in a conclusion that “the antitrust agencies failed, at key occasions, to stop monopolists from rolling up their competitors and failed to protect the American people from abuses of monopoly power. Forceful agency action is critical.” The FTC and a group of states sued Facebook last year, claiming antitrust violations.
Khan previously was a legal adviser to FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra and legal director at the Open Markets Institute.
Biden’s selection of Khan is a further indication that his administration will take an aggressive approach to scrutinizing antitrust issues. Khan was the author of the influential Yale Law Journal study, Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox. She then helped lead the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee investigation of competition in digital markets, culminating in a conclusion that “the antitrust agencies failed, at key occasions, to stop monopolists from rolling up their competitors and failed to protect the American people from abuses of monopoly power. Forceful agency action is critical.” The FTC and a group of states sued Facebook last year, claiming antitrust violations.
Khan previously was a legal adviser to FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra and legal director at the Open Markets Institute.
- 3/22/2021
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The Federal Trade Commission is issuing orders to nine social media and video streaming platforms for data on how they collect personal information of their users.
The agency also wants data on advertising and other practices, and how it affects children.
The orders are. being sent to Amazon, TikTok parent ByteDance, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp and YouTube.
“Social media and video streaming services have become almost unavoidable in today’s modern world, particularly as many Americans are working, socializing, and attending school online during the national pandemic,” FTC commissioners Rohit Chopra, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Christine Wilson said in a statement. “Despite their central role in our daily lives, the decisions that prominent online platforms make regarding consumers and consumer data remain shrouded in secrecy. Critical questions about business models, algorithms, and data collection and use have gone unanswered.”
They added that the agency “wants to understand how...
The agency also wants data on advertising and other practices, and how it affects children.
The orders are. being sent to Amazon, TikTok parent ByteDance, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter, WhatsApp and YouTube.
“Social media and video streaming services have become almost unavoidable in today’s modern world, particularly as many Americans are working, socializing, and attending school online during the national pandemic,” FTC commissioners Rohit Chopra, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Christine Wilson said in a statement. “Despite their central role in our daily lives, the decisions that prominent online platforms make regarding consumers and consumer data remain shrouded in secrecy. Critical questions about business models, algorithms, and data collection and use have gone unanswered.”
They added that the agency “wants to understand how...
- 12/14/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated with more details: Google will pay $170 million to settle claims by the Federal Trade Commission anda New York Attorney General Letitia James that YouTube illegally collected personal information from children without their parent’s consent.
The record fine, which had been anticipated after news reports that Google was about to settle the case, has ramifications across all platforms, as so much of kids’ viewing habits have shifted to online devices. Parental and consumer groups had called on the FTC to investigate what they saw as flagrant violations of a 1998 law that restricts the online collection of information from kids under the age of 13 without parental consent.
According to the FTC, Google and YouTube will pay $136 million to the agency, and $34 million to New York. The federal regulators said that the fine was the largest the FTC had ever collected for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act,...
The record fine, which had been anticipated after news reports that Google was about to settle the case, has ramifications across all platforms, as so much of kids’ viewing habits have shifted to online devices. Parental and consumer groups had called on the FTC to investigate what they saw as flagrant violations of a 1998 law that restricts the online collection of information from kids under the age of 13 without parental consent.
According to the FTC, Google and YouTube will pay $136 million to the agency, and $34 million to New York. The federal regulators said that the fine was the largest the FTC had ever collected for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act,...
- 9/4/2019
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Facebook, which has faced intensifying government scrutiny after revelations of its misappropriation of user data, has agreed to a record $5 billion fine and new restrictions.
In a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission made public on Wednesday (hours before the company was slated to report its quarterly earnings), the company agreed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg will personally have to sign off on compliance. Failure to meet the new requirements could bring civil and criminal penalties.
Critics of the deal, including the two Democratic minority FTC commissioners, blasted it as inadequate.
“It doesn’t fix the incentives causing these repeat privacy abuses,” Commissioner Rohit Chopra said in one of a series of tweets explaining his vote against the settlement. “It doesn’t stop Facebook from engaging in surveillance or integrating platforms. There are no restrictions on data harvesting tactics — just paperwork. Facebook gets to sign off on what’s acceptable.”
The...
In a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission made public on Wednesday (hours before the company was slated to report its quarterly earnings), the company agreed that CEO Mark Zuckerberg will personally have to sign off on compliance. Failure to meet the new requirements could bring civil and criminal penalties.
Critics of the deal, including the two Democratic minority FTC commissioners, blasted it as inadequate.
“It doesn’t fix the incentives causing these repeat privacy abuses,” Commissioner Rohit Chopra said in one of a series of tweets explaining his vote against the settlement. “It doesn’t stop Facebook from engaging in surveillance or integrating platforms. There are no restrictions on data harvesting tactics — just paperwork. Facebook gets to sign off on what’s acceptable.”
The...
- 7/24/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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