November 22, 2022<\/p>\n
Media contact: National Consumers League \u2013 Katie Brown, katie@nclnet.org, 202-823-8442<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Consumers League (NCL)\u00a0this week\u00a0filed comments in support\u00a0of\u00a0a Federal Trade Commission\u00a0(FTC)\u00a0regulation to protect Americans\u2019 data privacy.\u00a0In its comments, NCL urged the\u00a0FTC to ensure that consumers have the rights\u00a0to data confidentiality, access, deletion, portability, and ethical use. Such safeguards are\u00a0critical\u00a0for stemming\u00a0the torrent of\u00a0privacy abuses that Americans have suffered in the digital age\u2014perpetrated by\u00a0both corporate and governmental entities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cGiven our dependency on the internet to conduct our daily lives, the fact that we have gone this long without federal privacy protections is profoundly disappointing. The FTC is doing critical work in initiating this rulemaking process,\u201d said John Breyault, NCL Vice President of Public Policy, Telecommunications and Fraud. “Consumers should not be at risk of identity theft, financial loss, or other privacy intrusions simply by having an internet connection.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The League urged the Commission to give special consideration to sensitive data types, such as location and genetic information, as well as students\u2019 data utilized by educational technology companies.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cWith the proliferation of ed-tech, classrooms have become another area of vulnerability regarding privacy. This follows students when they take their school-issued devices and software home with them,\u201d said Eden Iscil, NCL Public Policy Associate. \u201cEd-tech is a particularly worrying sector as students typically have no choice but to use the technology mandated by their institution, regardless of its insecurity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n NCL has made fighting for consumers\u2019 privacy a priority. Earlier this year, the League <\/span>released<\/span><\/a>\u00a0a slate of proposed genetic privacy rights for\u00a0policymakers to\u00a0implement. Additionally, the organization is in its seventh year of publishing the <\/span>#DataInsecurity Digest<\/span><\/a>, a semi-weekly newsletter containing policy analysis and news coverage related to\u00a0digital privacy.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n NCL\u2019s full comments to the FTC can be read here.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n ###<\/span><\/p>\n About the National Consumers League (NCL) <\/strong><\/p>\n The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America\u2019s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit https:\/\/nclnet.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The National Consumers League (NCL)\u00a0this week\u00a0filed comments in support\u00a0of\u00a0a Federal Trade Commission\u00a0(FTC)\u00a0regulation to protect Americans\u2019 data privacy.\u00a0In its comments, NCL urged the\u00a0FTC to ensure that consumers have the rights\u00a0to data confidentiality, access, deletion, portability, and ethical use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[14,15,315,266],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23290,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998\/revisions\/23290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}