US FTC technology office highlights key enforcement actions, remedies | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commission Chief Technologist Stephanie Nguyen outlined major programmatic advances achieved across the agency and highlighted how the FTC's work on the "front lines of tech innovation & regulation" has benefited from the establishment of an Office of Technology and other investments. Those programmatic advances included bans on harmful products and marketing of harmful products, adoption of data minimization principles, enforcement actions against mass data collection and sharing of sensitive data for advertising purposes, cracking down on dark patterns and bringing litigation to promote competition in the tech sector.