Broad Support for Data Broker Transparency,rnWith No Agreement How to Get There

摘要

Data brokers can be more transparent. It’s the one theme consumer advocates, industry associations,rnlawmakers, federal agencies and data brokers have agreed on in studies, recommendations, hearingsrnand interviews. The problem is in the details. FTC Commissioner Julie Brill suggests a self-regulatoryrninitiative she calls “Reclaim Your Name.” Consumers should have the right — and a user-friendly onlinernportal — to access data collected about them, she has said in speeches, op-eds and interviews.