Partner Janis Kestenbaum was quoted in "FTC Chair Lina Khan Anticipated to Share Privacy Vision", an article in IAPP: The Privacy Advisor, regarding U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan and her public address, focusing on privacy issues as chair during the upcoming IAPP Global Privacy Summit in Washington, D.C.

With an antitrust background and goals in the antitrust arena, Perkins Coie Partner Janis Kestenbaum, who previously served as senior legal advisor to former FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez, said it’s no surprise the area has been a priority for Khan. But, she said, “I don’t think we’ve seen, or will see, an inattention to privacy, particularly because of Chair Khan’s efforts to identify linkages between competition and privacy and to foster greater cross-pollination between the privacy and competition work of the FTC, as well as the strong interest in privacy by fellow commissioners.”

“Questions therefore abound about how Chair Khan wants to approach the rulemaking, including what kinds of practices she potentially wants to address and how,” she said.