Diane Bartz of Reuters reports that Julie Brill, North Carolina’s senior deputy attorney general and chief of consumer protection is being considered to fill a vacant commission seat at the FTC, “according to antitrust sources with knowledge of the administration’s thinking.” According to Reuters: Brill previously worked in the Vermont Attorney General’s consumer protection and…
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Obama’s secret plan to harvest personal data from social networking websites
Ken Boehm reports that the: NLPC [National Legal and Policy Center] has uncovered a plan by the White House New Media operation to hire a technology vendor to conduct a massive, secret effort to harvest personal information on millions of Americans from social networking websites. The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails,…
Opinion: Obama takes stand for secrecy, executive power
Over on Politico, Josh Gerstein writes: President Barack Obama’s administration is escalating a legal showdown which has the Justice Department defending official secrecy and executive power with arguments more associated with former Vice President Dick Cheney than the White House’s newest occupants. On Wednesday afternoon, the Justice Department filed an appeal and a request for…
FTC enforces US/EU Safe Harbor Program for first time
From Proskauer Rose: In early August, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced the first enforcement action against a U.S. company for violation of the US/EU Safe Harbor Program. This enforcement action should serve as a call-to-action for all Safe Harbor program participants to review their safe harbor programs now, and re-affirm their compliance. The US/EU…