GAO-19-427T: Published: Mar 7, 2019. Publicly Released: Mar 7, 2019.

This testimony focuses on the Federal Trade Commission's authority to oversee Internet privacy and security. Without a comprehensive federal data privacy law, the United States relies in part on FTC to use its broad authority to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive trade practices. Most industry representatives we interviewed favored the current approach and warned that further regulations...