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Privacy groups blast US FTC as digital ad industry \u2018lapdog\u2019<\/h1>\n

By David Mclaughlin<\/a><\/p>\n

Leading privacy watchdog groups lashed out at the US Federal Trade Commission for siding with the advertising industry as part of an initiative to update consumer-data protections.<\/p>\n

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The organizations, which include the Consumer Federation of America and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told FTC Chairman Joe Simons in a letter Nov 26 that the agency relied on a \u201cself-serving study\u201d by the ad industry to warn against a policy in which consumers are opted out of online advertising by default.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re incapable of standing up for the public and taking on these powerful interests,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need a real watchdog, not a lapdog.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, if consumers were opted out of online advertisements by default (with the choice of opting in), the likely result would include the loss of advertising-funded online content,\u201d the FTC said.<\/p>\n

Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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