FTC Issues New Report on Internet Privacy

On December 1, 2010 the FTC, the nation’s primary privacy policy enforcement agency, released a report proposing a new framework for online consumer privacy.   The report attempts to balance the privacy interest of consumers, while encouraging industry innovation.  “The FTC wants to help ensure that the growing, changing, thriving information marketplace is built on a framework that promotes privacy, transparency, business innovation and consumer choice,” said the FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz.