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Privacy workers think regulation of big tech data harvesting needs a new approach.
A story in Wired considers the use of FTC consent decrees for regulating the personal data handling of companies like Google and Meta — and whether they’re still effective, more than 10 years later.
Based on 20 interviews with “current and former” privacy employees at the companies, the article says that, increasingly, they view decree-mandated internal reviews “as outdated and inadequate,” having led to things like the Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2018.
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