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By Era Anagnosti, Brent Bernell, Daniel Caprio, Steven Phillips, Andrew Serwin, and John Gevertz
On February 18, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order (EO), entitled, “Restoring Democracy and Accountability in Government,” which asserts greater authority over
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reiterated its long-held view that hashing or pseudonymizing identifiers does not render data anonymous, in a post to its Technology Blog on July 24, 2024.
In the rather strongly worded post, while acknowledging that hashing and pseudonymizing data has the benefit of obscuring the underlying personal data, the FTC
Continue Reading FTC Reiterates that Hashed and Pseudonymized Data is Still Identifiable DataThe Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) is taking bold actions to challenge business’s collection and monetization of consumers’ personal data—particularly sensitive personal data. This month, the FTC reached settlements with a data broker, X-Mode Social and its successor Outlogic LLC (“X-Mode”), and an alcohol addiction treatment firm, Monument Inc. (“Monument”), for, among other things, allegedly selling
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