The FTC’s report on data brokers won’t be...
The FTC’s report on data brokers won’t be issued until after the new year, an agency spokesman told us Friday. In December, the FTC sent letters to nine data brokers, requesting information about “the nature and sources of the consumer…
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information the data brokers collect; how they use, maintain, and disseminate the information; and the extent to which the data brokers allow consumers to access and correct their information or to opt out of having their personal information sold,” said a release at the time (CD Dec 19/12 p11). The government shutdown pushed back the report’s timeline by a few weeks, the spokesman said Friday, declining to give any indication of what to expect in the report until it’s made public. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., has also been doing a similar investigation since October 2012 (CD Oct 11/12 p12), which he expanded in September (CD Sept 26 p12).