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Comment: New US FTC Commissioner Bedoya signals support for broad view of online privacy harms

By Mike Swift ( November 1, 2022, 21:40 GMT | Comment) -- Alvaro Bedoya, a prominent privacy scholar who joined the US Federal Trade Commission in May as a third Democratic commissioner, believes "privacy protects people, not data," underscoring his broad view for how the US enforcer should regulate the collection and use of personal data. In one of his first media interviews, Bedoya spoke with MLex about topics ranging from his conviction that the FTC needs to add psychologists to the FTC staff to the agency's case against Kochava and Bedoya's view that Americans need better control over the use of their location data.The US Federal Trade Commission traditionally has been staffed by lawyers, economists and — more recently — by computer scientists who untangle the complex workings of online platforms. Alvaro Bedoya says the FTC needs to hire a new type of expert to study online harm: psychologists....

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