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Dechert Cyber Bits - Issue 12

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FTC Chair Lina Khan Questions Current Data Collection Practices by Private Industry at IAPP Global Privacy Summit, Suggests New Rulemaking May Be Necessary - In her first major privacy address since taking the helm of the...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 6.16.2021 | Top Story: Big Tech Critic and Antitrust Scholar Khan Named New FTC Chair

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Fresh off her Senate approval as newest commissioner to the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan—“a prominent critic of Big Tech”—has been named chair of the Commission. President Biden’s decision to make the 32-year-old Khan...more

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California Privacy Protection Agency Board Members Appointed

California Governor Gavin Newsom, along with Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins (D-San Diego), and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood), announced the appointment of the...more

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Brazil’s Senate approves Presidential appointees for Brazilian Data Protection Authority

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On October 15, 2020, President Jair Bolsonaro appointed the five members for the new Brazilian Data Protection Authority (ANPD). Three of the five appointees have military backgrounds (following Bolsonaro's previous...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CFPB data collection freeze impacting CFPB examinations

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Since Mick Mulvaney’s appointment by President Trump as CFPB Acting Director, there have been widespread media reports about Mr. Mulvaney’s plans to impose a freeze on the CFPB’s collection of personally identifiable...more

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Hints of a Narrowing of the FTC’s Section 5 Authority Under a Trump Presidency

The transition of power from President Barack Obama to President-Elect Donald Trump is underway. Although President-Elect Trump did not lay out specific policy prescriptions about data privacy or consumer protection during...more

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New EU Data Protection Supervisor Outlines 2015 Goals

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On January 5, 2015, Giovanni Buttarelli, the recently-appointed European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), published an editorial outlining his policy goals for 2015 and beyond. The editorial, entitled “Big Data, Big...more

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