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FTC Weighs Rulemaking on Privacy Abuses, Algorithmic Discrimination

The FTC is considering issuing an FTC Act Section 18 rulemaking to limit privacy abuses and ensure “algorithmic decision-making” doesn’t result in “unlawful discrimination,” OMB said. This came in the commission’s annual regulatory priorities submission to OMB, which recently published…

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the submissions. “Algorithms are used everywhere, and their malicious use causes real harm to Americans every day,” Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said in a statement. He said he was glad to see Chair Lina Khan and the agency "take this step to crack down on companies using discriminatory algorithms.”