TPI's Lenard Warns Against NTIA, FTC Limiting Data Collection

NTIA shouldn't promote a privacy enforcement framework (see 1810220032) modeled after new laws in Europe and California that limit collection and use of data, Technology Policy Institute Senior Fellow Thomas Lenard commented in docket 180821780-8780-01. “Collecting and analyzing large amounts of data is the basis of much, if not most, of the innovation that has taken place on the internet over the past 20 years,” Lenard said Friday. The current FTC model is “ex post enforcement based on actual harms,” he wrote, and laws in California and the EU “use an ex ante regulatory approach.”