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FTC turns page on ambitious period of US privacy enforcement under Khan, Levine

By Mike Swift ( January 22, 2025, 00:30 GMT | Comment) -- Speaking with MLex while packing up his office at the FTC Friday evening, Sam Levine, chief of the Bureau of Consumer Protection under Chair Lina Khan, said the FTC made a “paradigm-shifting” change in privacy enforcement over the past three years by showing it is possible to restrict or block how firms that allegedly violated privacy laws could use consumers' personal data. While key parts of the privacy agenda under Khan and Levine weren't completed, such as the "commercial surveillance" rulemaking the FTC proposed in 2022, Levine told MLex he believes the change will be lasting and that the FTC under Khan has "shown that this small agency can do really big things for people.” In January 2021, in the last hours of the first Trump administration, the US Federal Trade Commission settled allegations against Flo Health that the women’s fertility app misrepresented privacy safeguards around users’ health data....

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