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FTC, White House push for online privacy laws

New legislation aims to enable US regulation

By Edward Wyatt

 |  New York Times  

  May 10, 2012

The Obama administration and the nation’s chief privacy regulator pressed Congress on Wednesday to enact online privacy legislation, saying new laws would level the playing field between companies that already had privacy policies and those that lacked them, and thus escape regulatory oversight.

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