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Comment: FTC consumer protection chief Levine sees 'paradigm shift' in US privacy enforcement

By Mike Swift ( August 2, 2023, 23:03 GMT | Comment) -- Samuel Levine, director of the US Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, sat down for an extended conversation with MLex recently from his compact office in Washington to discuss an unprecedented three months of privacy enforcement actions by the agency. The FTC’s recent privacy actions against Meta Platforms, Twitter, Microsoft, Amazon, Kochava, Edmodo and others, Levine said, represent a "paradigm shift in how we think about privacy, and how we think about the responsibilities of companies versus the responsibilities of consumers." He added: “We’re just getting started.”Since early May, the US Federal Trade Commission has launched unprecedented legal action to block Meta Platforms from monetizing the data of young people, and it has completed the first significant federal privacy enforcement cases against Microsoft and Amazon....

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