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FTC Report's Impact May Not Be Limited To Data Brokers

Law360, New York ( July 23, 2014, 10:24 AM EDT) -- The Federal Trade Commission released a report, "Data Brokers: A Call for Transparency and Accountability," based on an in-depth study of data brokers, which the commission defines as companies whose primary business is to collect consumers' personal information and resell or share that information with others. [1] Data brokers collect hundreds if not thousands of data points on individuals from a broad range of sources and use those data points to develop complex algorithms for marketing, authentication, fraud detection and other purposes. . . .

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