Where We’ve Been: Privacy in the Obama Years

Privacy has been at the forefront of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) work during the Obama Administration. In 2009, one of then-Chairman Jon Leibowitz’s first acts was to initiate a review of the agency’s approach to privacy issues given rapidly-changing technology. Soon after, social networks, mobile apps, and online ad networks became targets of stepped-up enforcement. Read more*

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