1/4 Protection des #données personnelles toujours: ça bouge enfin aux #EtatsUnis. La FTC présidée par l’obstinée #LinaKhan, annonce ouvrir une consultation pour créer en leur #RGPD (à l’image de l’Europe qui est précurseure depuis 2018).

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🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/JeanMarieCAVADA/status/1559243449462919171

1/ Ça va peut être enfin bouger à la #FTC. Sa patronne #LinaKhan, très anti monopole, était bloquée par les 2 commissaires républicains face aux 2 démocrates. @iDFRights

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/JeanMarieCAVADA/status/1526815685250363393

Big Tech critic Lina Khan named chair of the FTC

Lina Khan, a prominent critic of Big Tech, has been named chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a White House spokesperson confirmed Tuesday.

The update comes just hours after the Senate voted to confirm the 32-year-old to the agency in a 69-28 vote.

The designation as chairwoman will give Khan greater authority at the FTC at a time when the agency is pursuing an antitrust case against Facebook and as lawmakers look to revamp laws to give the agency greater authority to rein in the market power of tech giants. ...

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/558584-lina-khan-named-chair-of-the-ftc

#LinaKhan #FTC #BigTech #Monopoly #AntiTrust

Big Tech Showdown Looms As Biden Taps Top Critics Lina Khan, Tim Wu

...President Biden on Monday nominated Khan to the Federal Trade Commission, an agency tasked with enforcing competition laws. She is the splashiest addition to Biden's growing roster of Big Tech critics, including fellow Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu, who announced earlier this month he would join the National Economic Council.

The news suggests the White House is preparing for a showdown with the tech industry at a time when federal and state regulators are already pursuing investigations and lawsuits challenging the dominance of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Biden has also called for the repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a legal shield for Internet platforms that has come under fire from both Democrats and Republicans. ...

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/22/975220122/big-tech-showdown-looms-as-biden-taps-top-critics-lina-khan-tim-wu

#LinaKhan #TimWu #FTC #antitrust #monopoly #uspol #regulation #WelcomeChange