The Economics of Privacy and Consumer Data Protection

At a September 2019 symposium on consumer protection, the Law & Economics Center hosted a panel of leading experts who discussed and debated the Federal Trade Commission’s approach to privacy regulation. Has the Commission taken the right approach on privacy regulation? Should it take a stricter approach, as the European Union has done? Or would more flexibility be better? Listen in as the panelists discussed the FTC’s approach and debated alternatives.