This month, FTC Acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen joined the Privacy Coalition. She discussed the role of the FTC with respect to privacy and consumer protection. The Privacy Coalition’s next meeting will be Friday, April 21st with European Data Protection Supervisor, Giovanni Buttarelli.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Kelly and Attorney General Sessions, a coalition of more than 25 open government organizations expressed concerns about the lawfulness and objectivity of data practices under several recent immigration Executive Orders. Official memos reveal the Orders are being implemented in “manner that is unlawful and inconsistent with federal information quality guidelines, raising serious privacy, transparency, and accountability concerns.” The coalition urged Secretary Kelly and the Attorney General to align data practices with privacy safeguards, open data, and data quality requirements. “Public data allows the public to hold its government accountable – but that is only
A coalition of children’s advocates have filed a comment opposing petitions that ask the FCC to revoke its broadband privacy rules. The coalition urged the FCC to retain rules that treat children’s data, web browsing histories, and app usage data as sensitive and to retain opt-in requirements for all categories of sensitive information.
In comments to Office of Government Information Services, a coalition of open government groups urged greater transparency for dispute resolutions. The coalition wrote that a proposed rule “would impose restrictive confidentiality requirements.” The coalition proposed revisions that “do not place restrictive confidentiality requirements on requesters” who use dispute resolution services.
This month, FCC Chairman Pai’s Senior Counsel, Nick Degani. Mr. Degani has been a legal advisor to Chairman Pai for the past four years. He will join us to discuss Chairman Pai’s priorities as the new head of the FCC. This will be an excellent opportunity to discuss the role of the FCC with respect to privacy.
A coalition of human rights groups is urging the UN to investigate reports that the US is demanding entrants provide access to their cell phones and social media accounts. “These practices persist in violation of the United States human rights treaty obligations and your action is needed to hold the government accountable,” the group stated in a letter to the the UN High Commissioner on Human rights and other UN offices.
