If Congress passes the House Commerce Committee’s bipartisan privacy bill, it would need to double the FTC’s budget for the agency to meet the new law’s requirements, FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said Thursday.
Several Supreme Court justices showed skepticism Wednesday that Andy Warhol made fair use in repurposing a photographer’s portrait of musician Prince and selling it as his own transformative work in the 1980s (see 2208210001).
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative should add Meta to its 2022 Notorious Markets List (see 2202170053) due to the proliferation of counterfeit goods on platforms like Facebook Marketplace, Instagram and WhatsApp, trade groups told the agency in comments last week.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Friday initiating finalization of a new cross-border data agreement with the EU. Industry applauded the EO, but advocates say the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) doesn’t resolve outstanding data privacy issues that led the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to invalidate the previous two agreements.
Industry and government using AI should eliminate algorithmic bias, inform consumers about data collection and allow consumers to opt out, the White House said Tuesday, releasing its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights.
There’s strong, bipartisan potential for moving legislation that would establish digital identity verification practices meant to help the federal government combat identity theft, said Senate and House staffers during a Monday webinar.
The House Commerce Committee’s bipartisan privacy legislation is stronger than California’s privacy law, Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., said Thursday. He hopes to convince House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and other skeptical members that the bill should set the national privacy standard.
The FTC should be “careful” in drawing up potential competition rules that might not withstand judicial scrutiny, former Democratic officials told an antitrust conference Wednesday in Washington.
The FTC should avoid injecting new, unsubstantiated liability into potential changes to its ad endorsement guidelines, advertising groups told the agency in comments due this week (see 2207250036). Consumer advocates urged the agency to hold strong on expanded definitions for social media influencers and new protections for children and teens. The FTC collected public comment through Monday on its first substantive update to the guides since 2009.
FTC Chair Lina Khan should recuse herself from the agency’s lawsuit against Meta’s acquisition of Within Unlimited because her publicly aired opinions “irrevocably tainted” the case, Meta argued Friday in 5:22-CV-04325 before the U.S. District Court in San Jose. Senate Democrats defended her willingness to hold Big Tech accountable and name executives in complaints, in interviews last week.