Consumer Groups Blast FTC for Citing Ad Industry Study to NTIA
Recent FTC comments to NTIA unfairly favor corporate interests concerning opt-in data privacy proposals, 15 consumer and privacy groups wrote the commission Monday. The FTC cited “unintended consequences” of deploying an opt-in model, which would require users to authorize data…
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collection, citing an advertising industry survey (see 1811130058). The FTC should have taken a “broader look at the evidence, rather than relying on a self-serving study by one stakeholder,” the groups wrote. They included Center for Digital Democracy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center and Public Knowledge. The FTC didn’t comment.