On Monday, presaging his sixth State of the Union Address, U.S. President Barack Obama visited the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) bearing a message of sweeping privacy reform. The location was no coincidence. The FTC has emerged as the most significant privacy regulator in the United States, if not the world. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, IAPP VP of Research and Education Omer Tene argues that privacy has become the new antitrust, on the central stage of the national policy agenda, and that is why the Westin Research Center has spent some 16 months in building the FTC Casebook. Today, the IAPP releases this powerful tool, which makes all the FTC complaints and consent decrees and attendant documents searchable by keyword, tag or case home page. And it’s free to IAPP members.
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