Bart Lazar Quoted in FTC: WATCH
“FTC in the spotlight in new Obama privacy proposal”

Intellectual Property partner Bart Lazar was quoted in an article appearing in the March 1 issue of FTC: WATCH. The article reviewed a White House proposal for a voluntary company code of conduct which would give consumers more privacy over their personal information. While the code would not be mandatory, companies who agree to follow the code would be monitored by the FTC to ensure compliance.

According to Bart, the Obama-proposed policy would bring the U.S. more in line with privacy practices in Europe. “The Obama administration is seeing the future and saying ‘Hey, this is an opportunity for us if we can develop our own codes of conduct,’” Bart observed. “If codes of conduct have the impact of eliminating disparities in state, federal and international laws and reducing the regulatory morass the companies have to deal with, that would really relieve the compliance burden on American and multinational corporations.”