From EPIC.org:
On August 19, EPIC led a coalition including Public Knowledge, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Demand Progress Education Fund, Fairplay, and Free Press, in urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to deny Scott Zuckerman’s petition to modify or vacate the Consent Decree he and the agency agreed to in 2021 in response to FTC enforcement against his SpyFone product. The coalition emphasized that modifying this particular Consent Decree would undermine the FTC’s role as an enforcer and embolden other purveyors of stalkerware, that the agency did important work issuing this Consent Decree because stalkerware and other forms of surreptitious surveillance present uniquely sensitive threats to consumers, that the FTC should raise the bar rather than lower it for data privacy and security standards, and that the facts of this case may have implications for criminal prosecution, as one then-FTC Commissioner noted at the time.
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