Why the FTC should not be the responsible for privacy regulation in the United States.
In the previous blog post, I've talked at length of the possible ramifications of the Federal Trade Commission interfering in YouTube and YouTube's community of content creators. When I finished that blog post, I took some time to consider what other aspects of surveillance and privacy the FTC failed at. The FTC is more focused on keeping trade competitive rather than protecting privacy rights. That being said, the question that loomed over my mind was whether or not the FTC should be in charge of privacy. When did the FTC make the shots for consumers' privacy? In fact, what does trade regulation have to do with citizen's privacy? There is a problem with the fact that the FTC being the one to decide if a privacy breach is broken, the way they handle breaches, and the failure of their oversight being too punishing on one hand while being too lenient on the other. The FTC should not be the ones to make this call and a different entity should be the ones to prioritize a...
