Groups Urge FTC to Act Against Data Discrimination

On Oct. 27, 45 civil-rights, media-democracy and consumer-advocacy groups called on Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan to initiate a rulemaking to safeguard privacy, promote civil rights, and set guardrails against the abuse of online data.

Discriminatory and abusive data practices are prevalent across the digital economy, the groups wrote in a letter submitted to Khan. “A rulemaking that addresses the entire life cycle of data — collection, use, management, retention, and deletion — will provide people with significant protection from discrimination and related data harms.”