Marcy Gordon of the Associated Press reports: As they negotiate a record fine against Facebook, federal privacy regulators sparked a debate in Congress Wednesday over how effective such penalties can be in preventing future abuses by big companies. Members of a House consumer protection subcommittee also gave a sympathetic hearing to the Federal Trade Commission’s…
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EPIC to Senate Committee: Press FAA on Drone Privacy
From EPIC.org: Prior to a hearing on “New Entrants in the National Airspace,” EPIC has urged the Senate Commerce Committee to ensure that the FAA establish drone privacy safeguards. EPIC also said the FAA should require remote identification of drones. “Currently, individuals cannot hold drone operators accountable because it is essentially impossible to identify the…
FTC to Face Questions Over How It Handled Years’ Worth of Privacy Disasters
Dell Cameron report: America’s top consumer watchdog will face questions from congressional lawmakers this week concerning a veritable laundry list of privacy-related incidents, including many that will be centered around Facebook’s own protracted series of failures. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is holding its first oversight hearing for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in…
App Stores Remove Three Dating Apps After FTC Warns Operator about Potential COPPA, FTC Act Violations
Three dating apps have been removed from Apple’s App Store and Google’s Google Play Store following allegations by the Federal Trade Commission that the apps allowed children as young as 12 to access them and appeared to be in violation of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the FTC Act. In a recent…