FTC to Study Data Broker Industry’s Collection and Use of Consumer Data

FTC to Study Data Broker Industry’s Collection and Use of Consumer Data Commission Issues Nine Orders for Information to Analyze Industry’s Privacy Practices FTC RELEASE: The Federal Trade Commission issued orders requiring nine data brokerage companies to provide the agency with information about how they collect and use data about consumers. The agency will use the information…

Congress Tackles Big Data

Investigations in Both Senate and House Seek Clarification on Practices (1) Sample Letters Sent to Data Brokers By combining data from numerous offline and online sources, data brokers have developed hidden dossiers on almost every U.S. consumer. This large scale aggregation of the personal information of hundreds of millions of American citizens raises a number…