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Unfair And Deceptive Robots, Woodrow Hartzog
Unfair And Deceptive Robots, Woodrow Hartzog
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Robots, like household helpers, personal digital assistants, automated cars, and personal drones are or will soon be available to consumers. These robots raise common consumer protection issues, such as fraud, privacy, data security, and risks to health, physical safety and finances. Robots also raise new consumer protection issues, or at least call into question how existing consumer protection regimes might be applied to such emerging technologies. Yet it is unclear which legal regimes should govern these robots and what consumer protection rules for robots should look like.
The thesis of the Article is that the FTC’s grant of authority and …
The Scope And Potential Of Ftc Data Protection, Woodrow Hartzog, Daniel J. Solove
The Scope And Potential Of Ftc Data Protection, Woodrow Hartzog, Daniel J. Solove
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For more than fifteen years, the FTC has regulated privacy and data security through its authority to police deceptive and unfair trade practices as well as through powers conferred by specific statutes and international agreements. Recently, the FTC’s powers for data protection have been challenged by Wyndham Worldwide Corp. and LabMD. These recent cases raise a fundamental issue, and one that has surprisingly not been well explored: How broad are the FTC’s privacy and data security regulatory powers? How broad should they be?
In this Article, we address the issue of the scope of FTC authority in the areas of …