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Khan, former FTC officials say they left 'durable blueprint' for digital privacy enforcement

By Mike Swift ( June 20, 2025, 18:39 GMT | Comment) -- Judging that the "narrow, hollowed out, ideologically inflected conception" of Reagan-era privacy enforcement limited to deceptive conduct could no longer protect American consumers in the modern digital economy, former US Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan led what she and other former FTC officials called a “paradigm shift” in enforcement. In a Stanford University law review article and an interview with MLex, Khan said the generational pivot away from the previous “ideologically cramped view” of the FTC’s enforcement powers is unlikley to be fully dialed back, even by the FTC's current conservative leadership.Between 2022 and this January, the US Federal Trade Commission carried out an unprecedented burst of data protection enforcement, with many of those cases based on the agency’s powers to police “unfair” business practices under the FTC Act....

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