In this Part Two covering the Federal Trade Commission’s Report on Data Brokers, (Part One is here) we focus on the Report’s detail of benefits and risks to consumers of data brokers’ services, the FTC’s legislative recommendations and best practices data brokers should consider to address growing concerns surrounding data mining. Lastly, we’ll review considerations […]
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Data Broker Study from FTC Reveals a Big Data World
Data brokers have been under increased scrutiny lately – from Congress, the press and joined again this week by the Federal Trade Commission, which released a 109-page study of nine data brokers entitled Data Brokers: A Call For Transparency and Accountability (the “Report”). which examined nine data brokers to determine the types and scope of personal information data collected. What […]
