Attorney Rulebook: FTC Privacy and Security Rulemaking

Technologies have evolved dramatically in recent decades, with the speed of their adoption by consumers leaving regulators to play catch-up in their oversight. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a federal regulatory body that enforces consumer protection laws and prevents unfair business practices. As businesses’ exploitative or grossly inadequate data privacy practices increasingly come to light, the FTC is taking recourse in its rulemaking authority to address issues of data privacy and security, as well as commercial surveillance. Attorneys wanting to better understand the horizon for privacy and security regulatory rulemaking and enforcement, as well as the role their clients can play it, will find this concentrated discussion essential to their practice.