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FTC Lessons in Handling Sensitive Location Data
This week, let’s consider the FTC’s continued focus on sensitive location data. We’ll look at the lessons that can be learned from its latest actions, and provide a related thought on how irony emerges when considering local governments' widespread adoption of Smart City technologies.
Stop Selling Data: Avast's Strategy Stymied by the FTC
This week, let’s consider the Federal Trade Commission’s recent settlement with Avast, which, among other things, contains a $16.5 million penalty and bans Avast from selling web browsing data for advertising purposes
The Rise of UOOMs
This week, let’s focus on Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms (UOOMs), like the Global Privacy Control and highlight several related state privacy laws (California, Colorado, and Connecticut).