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US FTC 'Attention Economy' conference carries kids' privacy warnings for tech industry

By Mike Swift ( June 10, 2025, 22:13 GMT | Comment) -- An ambitious, young, conservative leadership at the US Federal Trade Commission — many of them now parents who grew up as digital natives in the 2000s — appear to have the means and the determination to police online child privacy and safety over the next few years. An FTC conference last week revealed an agency planning to take an aggressive tack and even looking to expand its “regulatory toolbox” to take on issues like addictive design and protecting kids and teens from sexual or violent online content. Large tech companies appear to be in their crosshairs.For years, regulatory enforcement and litigation over digital privacy was hampered by the difficulty of demonstrating tangible harm....

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