Federal Trade Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen expressed concerns Tuesday about privacy recommendations laid out in last year’s FTC privacy report. According to MediaPostNews, Ohlhausen said the FTC “did not address the possible competitive effects of its recommendation” in the privacy report, adding, “New privacy restrictions may have an effect on competition by favoring entrenched entities” over newer, smaller businesses. She also said she doesn’t “currently support a baseline privacy bill, but am not against privacy legislation per se,” and she indicated that some data-collection practices have “raised concerns.”
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