Yes, and regrettably, our Chairman Pai loves to use this type of distraction
tactic to put clueless people to sleep. Look what a great cop the FTC is. Too
bad none of this has ANYTHING to do with guaranteeing neutrality of the
telecoms. It's just noise.
My reaction to this is, who the hell cares? It's all secondary.
"The FCC's network neutrality regulation rollback will allow for those new tech
business models, like paid prioritization, under the presumably watchful eye of
the FTC."
Watching for what? That the local monopoly is "honest" about how it degrades
and blocks the sites a user might be most interested in? "New business models"
is just a euphemism for how best to screw the consumer, in this case, because
it only applies to a monopoly service.
"Among the cases it cited were one against Lenovo for selling laptops with
security vulnerabilities, and against Uber for failing to secure info in the
cloud. It also pointed to new guidance on how the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act applied to voice recordings."
With respect to the MAIN issue here, mandated neutrality of the telecoms, this
is just a lot of bla bla bla. Yes, so we see the FTC is doing its job. No one
ever questioned that. The problem is, the crooks at the FCC are not doing THEIR
job. Mandated neutrality of the telecoms is an FCC job. Let's not distract
people with irrelevant verbiage, as Chairman Pai likes to do when he points the
finger at web sites. Stupid diversionary tactics.
Bert
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http://www.multichannel.com/news/policy/ftc-makes-case-data-privacy-security-muscle/417619
Policy
FTC Makes Case for Data Privacy, Security Muscle
Annual report outlines actions taken to protect both
1/19/2018 1:47 PM Eastern
By: John Eggerton
The Federal Trade Commission this week issued its annual report on privacy and
data security actions over the past year. How well the FTC enforces privacy and
security will take on even greater import after the FCC's new net neutrality
rules go into effect since they return ISP privacy and security issues to the
FTC's purview.
The report seemed geared to assuaging fears bout how much muscle the FTC has in
the online space, outlining the FTC's "broad" authority over privacy issues:
"The FTC's primary legal authority comes from Section 5 of the Federal Trade
Commission Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive practices in the
marketplace. The FTC also has authority to enforce a variety of sector specific
laws, including the Truth in Lending Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair
Credit Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the
Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act."
The FTC said that authority allows it to get at a "wide array" of practices,
including those "that emerge with the development of new technologies and
business models."
The FCC's network neutrality regulation rollback will allow for those new tech
business models, like paid prioritization, under the presumably watchful eye of
the FTC.
The report cites 130 spam and spyware cases and 50 general privacy lawsuits in
2017--the FTC's enforcement authority is via filing suits and securing
settlements.
Among the cases it cited were one against Lenovo for selling laptops with
security vulnerabilities, and against Uber for failing to secure info in the
cloud. It also pointed to new guidance on how the Children's Online Privacy
Protection Act applied to voice recordings.
It also points out, in regard to the FCC's rollback of the net neutrality regs,
that the FTC "has expertise in the antitrust and consumer protection issues
raised by net neutrality concerns."
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