In a Q&A with The Wall Street Journal, Georgetown Law Prof. David Vladeck discusses his experiences as director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection from 2009 until 2013. On enforcement action brought against Facebook and Google during his tenure, Vladeck says regulators want to punish bad conduct but don’t want to stifle companies’ innovation, and that the orders the FTC issued don’t tell the companies “how to run their business” but require them to embed privacy within their approaches—advice he’d give any large company. As for who should be on watch for forthcoming FTC attention, Vladeck says the data broker business needs added transparency, and “children’s privacy is going to stay on the forefront.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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