Partner Janis Kestenbaum was quoted in “FTC Begins Sweeping Commercial Surveillance and LAX Data Security Rulemaking Process,” an article in CSO, regarding consumers sensitive information and how the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the launch of an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) to help protect user data.

Janis, who worked on privacy and data security matters at the FTC, tells CSO, “The timing of this notice is itself notable given that Congress is closer than it ever has been to enacting comprehensive privacy legislation in the form of the American Data Privacy Protection Act, which covers the very topics that the FTC proposes to address. While the FTC says it will not move forward with this rulemaking if Congress passes the ADPPA, in the meantime, significant government and private sector resources will be spent addressing this rulemaking in what will be a time-consuming proceeding.”

Read the full article on CSO.