Jeremy Schoemaker’s latest blog post is titled “FTC Now Sets Sights on Data Brokers”.

Schoemaker says, “When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) speaks, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee and self-styled “champion of consumer privacy,” apparently listens. Two years ago, with the help and encouragement of the FTC, Rockefeller led passage of the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act (colloquially known as “Rockefeller”), which banned the practice of “data pass” between online sellers and upsellers in which the latter could use the consumer’s credit card number in another transaction without getting it again from the consumer. Now, again on cue from the FTC, he is setting his sights on the practices of a truly formidable target – the data brokerage industry, which is the nerve center of the new “Big Data” world of mass data collection and sharing on the Internet”.

FTC Now Sets Sights on Data Brokers

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