{"id":798984,"date":"2021-09-15T11:45:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T11:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/09\/15\/us-panel-votes-to-approve-1-billion-for-ftc-privacy-probes\/"},"modified":"2021-09-15T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T11:45:29","slug":"us-panel-votes-to-approve-1-billion-for-ftc-privacy-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2021\/09\/15\/us-panel-votes-to-approve-1-billion-for-ftc-privacy-probes\/","title":{"rendered":"US panel votes to approve $1 billion for FTC privacy probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee voted on Tuesday to give the Federal Trade Commission $1 billion to set up a bureau dedicated to improving data security and privacy and fighting identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, which Democrats included in a $3.5 trillion spending measure, would fund a new bureau over 10 years to address &#8220;unfair or deceptive acts or practices relating to privacy, data security, identity theft, data abuses, and related matters,&#8221; according to a summary released by the panel.<\/p>\n<p>The committee began work on the wide-ranging spending proposal on Monday and was continuing to work on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC, which enforces antitrust law, has picked up the job of pushing corporations to better protect consumer data and privacy as it enforces rules against deceptive practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee voted on Tuesday to give the Federal Trade Commission $1 billion to set up a bureau dedicated to improving data security and privacy and fighting identity theft. The proposal, which Democrats included in a $3.5 trillion spending measure, would fund a new bureau over 10 years to address &#8220;unfair or deceptive acts or practices relating to privacy, data security, identity theft, data abuses, and related matters,&#8221; according to a summary released by the panel. The committee began work on the wide-ranging spending proposal on Monday and was continuing to work on Tuesday evening. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}