Civil penalty authority could encourage companies to take data security seriously, an incentive to increase investment, said FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Director Andrew Smith Friday at a Free State Foundation event. He was asked about the agency’s recent no-fine settlement with Uber (see 1810260040). It’s very difficult to show the “causal link” between a security breach and harm to consumers, he said, but some commissioners believe there’s a “systemic underinvestment” in data security.
Industry groups warned NTIA against pushing privacy policies that restrict data collection. Consumer groups argued for more FTC authority and higher standards on data collection consent. Friday was NTIA’s deadline for comment on the administration’s privacy principles effort. The agency will make them publicly available this week, so we asked stakeholders what they filed, and others released them. Some said they were working on them Friday, and others said they don't plan to file.
The White House will draft data privacy legislation if asked, said National Economic Council Special Assistant to the President Abigail Slater Thursday. Regulating social media is a conversation worth having, she told a Washington Post event. Officials should weigh Europe’s approach to internet regulation while injecting American standards and values, said Slater. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s open to working with Democrats to regulate social media (see 1811070053).
BMI and ASCAP consent decrees let companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix not pay songwriters what they deserve (see 1810010031), and it’s good DOJ is exploring these decrees, National Music Publishers Association CEO David Israelite said in a Technology Policy Institute podcast. Songwriters “should have a right to negotiate the price of what they create in a free market, and the consent decrees prevent them,” he said in a conversation TPI promoted this week that included RIAA President Mitch Glazier. Thursday, the Internet Association didn’t comment. The Music Modernization Act’s Mechanical Licensing Collective (see 1809180059) will revolutionize how the music industry treats data, Israelite said. The MLC establishes a royalty payment database governed by a board of 10 publishers and four songwriters with oversight from the Copyright Office. It’s unique that the industry won’t “treat the ownership information as proprietary or confidential but rather as public information that is designed to get proper payment,” Israelite said, noting sound recordings will be publicly accessible for three years when the proper owner can’t be found.
BMI and ASCAP consent decrees let companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix not pay songwriters what they deserve (see 1810010031), and it’s good DOJ is exploring these decrees, National Music Publishers Association CEO David Israelite said in a Technology Policy Institute podcast. Songwriters “should have a right to negotiate the price of what they create in a free market, and the consent decrees prevent them,” he said in a conversation TPI promoted this week that included RIAA President Mitch Glazier. Thursday, the Internet Association didn’t comment. The Music Modernization Act’s Mechanical Licensing Collective (see 1809180059) will revolutionize how the music industry treats data, Israelite said. The MLC establishes a royalty payment database governed by a board of 10 publishers and four songwriters with oversight from the Copyright Office. It’s unique that the industry won’t “treat the ownership information as proprietary or confidential but rather as public information that is designed to get proper payment,” Israelite said, noting sound recordings will be publicly accessible for three years when the proper owner can’t be found.
The White House will draft data privacy legislation if asked, said National Economic Council Special Assistant to the President Abigail Slater Thursday. Regulating social media is a conversation worth having, she told a Washington Post event. Officials should weigh Europe’s approach to internet regulation while injecting American standards and values, said Slater. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s open to working with Democrats to regulate social media (see 1811070053).
BMI and ASCAP consent decrees let companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Netflix not pay songwriters what they deserve (see 1810010031), and it’s good DOJ is exploring these decrees, National Music Publishers Association CEO David Israelite said in a Technology Policy Institute podcast. Songwriters “should have a right to negotiate the price of what they create in a free market, and the consent decrees prevent them,” he said in a conversation TPI promoted this week that included RIAA President Mitch Glazier. Thursday, the Internet Association didn’t comment. The Music Modernization Act’s Mechanical Licensing Collective (see 1809180059) will revolutionize how the music industry treats data, Israelite said. The MLC establishes a royalty payment database governed by a board of 10 publishers and four songwriters with oversight from the Copyright Office. It’s unique that the industry won’t “treat the ownership information as proprietary or confidential but rather as public information that is designed to get proper payment,” Israelite said, noting sound recordings will be publicly accessible for three years when the proper owner can’t be found.
Having oppositely controlled chambers of Congress bodes well for bipartisan negotiation on regulating online privacy, tech trade group executives told us Wednesday. Industry allies agreed Republicans and Democrats remain far apart on specific policy. President Donald Trump in a post-election news conference said he’s open to working with Democrats on regulating social media companies, though he called Silicon Valley’s alleged anti-conservative bias a “serious problem.”
Having oppositely controlled chambers of Congress bodes well for bipartisan negotiation on regulating online privacy, tech trade group executives told us Wednesday. Industry allies agreed Republicans and Democrats remain far apart on specific policy. President Donald Trump in a post-election news conference said he’s open to working with Democrats on regulating social media companies, though he called Silicon Valley’s alleged anti-conservative bias a “serious problem.”
Having oppositely controlled chambers of Congress bodes well for bipartisan negotiation on regulating online privacy, tech trade group executives told us Wednesday. Industry allies agreed Republicans and Democrats remain far apart on specific policy. President Donald Trump in a post-election news conference said he’s open to working with Democrats on regulating social media companies, though he called Silicon Valley’s alleged anti-conservative bias a “serious problem.”