Building on the FTC’s continued push into mobile issues and privacy, which it reinforced at the 2015 IAPP Global Summit in D.C. two weeks ago, the Federal Trade Commission today announced an upcoming workshop to explore the issues raised by cross device tracking – using browsers or apps to visit sites across different devices. As the FTC […]
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Mobile Data Tracking – Takeaways from 1st FTC Spring Privacy Seminar
The FTC held its first seminar in the agency’s Spring Privacy Series yesterday on the hot topic of Mobile Device Tracking. In over two-hours the well-attended panel discussion covered privacy, security and regulatory issues raised by mobile tracking joined by Twitter users posting comments via the #FTCMobile hashtag. With the billion dollar mobile app market […]
FTC Recommends Best Practices for Facial Recognition Technologies
Regardless of your view of government, you have to on some level hand it to the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”). It is doggedly persistent, like perhaps few other federal agencies, in working to stay ahead of the ever breaking digital security and privacy wave. At the end of 2011 the FTC hosted a unique workshop […]