The lawmaker on Monday issued a rare rebuke of the agency, charging that regulators had 'failed' to protect consumers and their personal data from abuse.
Sen. Josh Hawley is rebuking the Federal Trade Commission, accusing it of failing to take decisive action against tech companies for violating their users’ privacy repeatedly over the past year. By Tony Romm Tony Romm Staff writer covering technology policy Email Bio Follow March 11 at 8:00 AM Republican Sen.
With Google, meanwhile, Hawley charged that the search giant had “consistently misinformed users about its use of geolocation data,” at times collecting that information from Android smartphones even when device owners thought they had disabled the tracking of their whereabouts. "These companies have failed us. Washington has failed us. The FTC has a special role to play, but it too has failed us,” Hawley said.
More than a century old, the FTC serves as the U.S. government’s de facto privacy cop because of its mandate to police businesses for unfair or deceptive acts and practices. In recent months, the agency has taken action on issues including children’s privacy, levying a fine against the social app now known as TikTok, and it created a special task force to oversee competition in the tech industry. A spokesman for the FTC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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