Senate Republicans welcomed bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would ban TikTok from operating in the U.S. Democrats were less enthusiastic, though Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., said he’s willing to explore the idea.
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency shouldn’t write rules that rush ISPs and network providers reporting cyber incidents, said representatives from Comcast, Oracle and Palo Alto Networks Tuesday.
Google and iHeartMedia violated the FTC Act when they aired some 29,000 “deceptive endorsements by radio personalities promoting their use of and experience with Google’s Pixel 4 phone” in 2019 and 2020, the FTC and seven state attorneys general said Monday in a settlement for $9.4 million.
The FTC should take a light-touch regulatory approach to protecting children from social media advertising harms, NCTA commented Friday in support of industry self-regulation for kids influencers and child-directed ad endorsement.
The FTC should end its data privacy rulemaking process because the agency lacks authority and Congress is the proper venue to settle the privacy debate, Senate Republicans told the agency in comments on an Advanced NPRM. A bipartisan group of 33 state attorneys general urged the commission Thursday to issue a rule to better protect consumers.
The priority during the lame-duck session for Senate Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and ranking member Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., is to pass kids privacy legislation, staffers for their offices said Wednesday.
The FTC should tread carefully if it's considering banning certain types of social media ads for children, advertisers and advocates said in interviews this week, citing the potential for legal challenges.
The FTC voted 3-1 Thursday to explore issuing rules combating fake online reviews. Commissioner Christine Wilson dissented, saying the FTC’s “avalanche” of rulemakings risks the agency becoming more of a legislature than a law enforcer.
The FTC likely needs to intervene on multiple fronts to protect children against increasingly blurred lines between social media advertising and organic content, Chair Lina Khan said Wednesday.
The new EU-U.S. trans-Atlantic data flow agreement goes far beyond previous deals by allowing EU residents privacy redress and introducing new legal concepts in the U.S., government officials from Washington and Brussels said Monday.