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FTC Chair Sees E.U. “Moving” Toward U.S. Standards; Is Seeing Believing?

At the end of what was an interesting, but rather ordinary interview in the Wall Street Journal, FTC Chair Jon Leibowitz dropped this interesting nugget:

MS. ANGWIN: The EU has a very different approach to privacy, and there has been concern about whether we’re going to move in that direction. What’s your view?

MR. LEIBOWITZ: My sense is you might see Europe moving a little bit more to our approach of allowing some advertising and allowing some collection of data.… More

FTC Announces Agenda for Workshop Exploring Practices, Privacy Implications of Comprehensive Collection of Web Data

The FTC has announced a preliminary agenda for a program it calls “The Big Picture: Comprehensive Data Collection.”  This workshop “will explore the practices and privacy implications of comprehensive data collection.”

The program will be held in Washington, DC, on Dec. 6, 2012, and is free and open to the public.

The workshop will be webcast live and a link will be available on FTC.gov. … More