At a meeting with New York Times staff, the chairman of the F.T.C., Jon Leibowitz, and David Vladeck, chief of the commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, discussed online privacy and the news business, among other topics. Both individuals have indicated that they expect the FTC to take a more active role in safeguarding consumer privacy. This may also be in light of the pending federal legislation the Data Accountability and Trust Act.

Among topics covered at the meeting were that few people actually read website privacy policies and questions regarding use of consumer data with respect to its use by data brokers, data aggregators, social networks, cloud computing and mobile marketing. (These subjects will be part of a Jan. 28 F.T.C. roundtable on privacy, held in Berkeley, Calif.)

For more information, read the New York Times blog about their meeting with the F.T.C. here. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/ftc-has-internet-gone-beyond-privacy-policies/

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