scheduled a public hearing<\/a> on the proposed rules on September 8th in which members of the public are encouraged to give testimony on the issue.<\/p>\n\u201cFirms now collect personal data on individuals at a massive scale and in a stunning array of contexts,\u201d said FTC chair Lina Khan in a statement accompanying the notice. \u201cOur goal today is to begin building a robust public record to inform whether the FTC should issue rules to address commercial surveillance and data security practices and what those rules should potentially look like.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rulemaking process typically gives the affected companies an opportunity to influence the pending rules, although their role in the process is necessarily limited. Google and Apple did not immediately respond to a request on how they would respond to the ANPR; Meta, parent company of Facebook, declined to comment.<\/p>\n
A number of groups have called on the FTC to take action on data privacy, including lawmakers in Congress. In 2021, a group of Senate Democrats wrote a formal letter to Khan<\/a> requesting new privacy rules from the commission. \u201cTech companies have routinely broken their promises to consumers,\u201d the Senators wrote, \u201conly to receive wrist-slap punishments after long delay.\u201d<\/p>\n\n