Earlier this week, representatives from the Obama administration and the Federal Trade Commission asked the U.S. Congress to enact more online privacy legislation in an effort to provide a more uniform Web browsing experience for Americans.
The officials urged lawmakers to write new laws that will help to standardize online privacy policies and give more control over these measures to the FTC, according to a report from the
New York Times. The practical upshot of this, they said, is that it will allow for greater competition among companies that do not have their own privacy policies and those which do.
"Granting direct enforcement authority to the FTC would enable the commission to take action against outliers and bad actors even if their actions do not violate a published privacy policy," Cameron Kerry, general counsel for the U.S. Department of Commerce, said in prepared testimony, according to the newspaper.
Eduard Goodman, chief privacy officer for
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