Ohlhausen Addresses IoT, Recent Data Breachesrnin Twitter Chat Participants Call Guarded

摘要

FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen addressed a number of Internet privacy topics — thernInternet of Things (IoT), the agency's patent troll study that she described as “ongoing," data securityrnand safe harbor — during a Monday chat on Twitter. While stakeholders appreciated Ohlhausen’srnoutreach efforts, they said her responses seemed to betray little about the commission's decisionmakingrnin pending proceedings. Her responses were “cautious and guarded,” said Ifrah Law Internet privacyrnlawyer Michelle Cohen. Ohlhausen seemed “to be playing her cards close,” agreed Steve Wilson,rnanalyst for business research firm Constellation Research. Chief Technology Officer MikernO'Neill of Baycloud Systems, which develops cloud-based systems, did “not really expect an answer,rnI just wanted people to think about” his Do-Not-Track (DNT) question, he said. But hedging andrnbrief answers were to be expected, given Twitter’s 140-character limitations, Cohen said. “It’s a littlerntricky to go in detail.”