{"id":751617,"date":"2021-09-14T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=751617"},"modified":"2021-09-14T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T17:36:05","slug":"biden-to-nominate-privacy-advocate-for-ftc-leadership-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-nominate-privacy-advocate-for-ftc-leadership-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden To Nominate Privacy Advocate for FTC Leadership Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-to-nominate-privacy-advocate-for-ftc-leadership-spot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=751617&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"27.576036866359\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Alvaro Bedoya is the latest big tech critic tapped for the agency<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-13-at-4.48.18-PM-736x436-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-13-at-4.48.18-PM-736x436.png 736w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-13-at-4.48.18-PM-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-13-at-4.48.18-PM-1024x607.png 1024w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-13-at-4.48.18-PM-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-13-at-4.48.18-PM-1400x829.png 1400w, https:\/\/s3.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-13-at-4.48.18-PM.png 1472w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAlvaro Bedoya (YouTube)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/santi-ruiz\/\" title=\"Posts by Santi Ruiz\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Santi Ruiz<\/a> \u2022 September 14, 2021 1:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"78.196408100879\">\n<p>President Joe Biden will <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alvarombedoya\/status\/1437509709251190797?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nominate<\/a> privacy advocate Alvaro Bedoya to the Federal Trade Commission, a move signaling the administration\u2019s intent to crack down on big tech.<\/p>\n<p>A professor and founding director of the Center on Privacy &amp; Technology at Georgetown University, Bedoya has criticized big tech and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perpetuallineup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> on Congress to regulate facial recognition technologies commonly used by law enforcement. His nomination signals the Biden administration\u2019s willingness to expand the scope of the FTC, an independent federal agency that enforces antitrust and consumer protection laws. If confirmed, Bedoya will solidify a Democratic majority on the Biden FTC, which <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/ftc-expands-its-power-to-penalize-powerful-companies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a> in July to expand its authority to go after big tech.<\/p>\n<p>Newly installed FTC chair<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Lina Khan has called on the agency to target powerful tech companies, even if they don\u2019t technically qualify as monopolists. In her brief tenure as chair, Khan has moved to consolidate power at the FTC. Earlier this summer, Khan successfully pushed to make it easier for just one commissioner to open an investigation into corporate practices, meaning commissioners can pursue pet enforcement projects without buy-in from other commissioners. She has also&nbsp;instituted a gag order on FTC employees, saying the agency&#8217;s resources are too strained to justify external speaking engagements.<\/p>\n<p>These changes give individual commissioners greater authority to target companies directly. Bedoya and Khan have both publicly criticized major tech platforms, and Bedoya\u2019s work has focused on facial recognition and drone tools. Bedoya has been particularly critical of companies that provide tools for immigration enforcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2020\/09\/palantir-ice-deportation-immigrant-surveillance-big-data.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> them the &#8220;technology behind ICE\u2019s brutality.&#8221; FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter has focused on curbing race and gender bias in commonly used algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>Some antitrust lawyers worry the FTC\u2019s attempts to reign in big tech are out of bounds. Khan has pursued a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/policy\/ftc-files-antitrust-suit-against-facebook\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawsuit<\/a> against Facebook that some more traditional antitrust experts have called an overreach.<\/p>\n<p>Bedoya has served as chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law and worked for Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.). If confirmed, Bedoya would replace Rohit Chopra, an aggressive antitrust advocate who has been nominated to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Democrats currently hold a 3-2 majority on the FTC board of commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2021\/09\/09\/democrats-tech-reconciliation\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed<\/a> increasing the FTC\u2019s funding by $1 billion to support a new privacy division, which Bedoya would likely be involved in.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration Alvaro Bedoya is the latest big tech critic tapped for the agency  Alvaro Bedoya (YouTube)  Santi Ruiz \u2022 September 14, 2021 1:30 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}