Nine Things You Should Know About the New FTC Rulemaking on Privacy and Targeted Advertising
08/12/2022 | 4 minute read
Posted in FTC

Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it was initiating a rulemaking to “crack down on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security.” More specifically, the agency issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security and announced a related workshop on the topic. This rulemaking will be conducted pursuant to the FTC’s organic rulemaking process, which is known as Mag-Moss rulemaking. There is quite a lot to digest about this new undertaking, and here are nine things you should know at the outset.
This rulemaking will be going on for a long time, and we will keep you up to date as developments occur.