In recent years, though, the FTC has evolved into the U.S. government’s primary regulator of the tech industry. Its budget this fiscal year is $306 million -- or about a third of 1 percent of the revenue that Google earned in 2017. Still, Rich said the FTC faces major structural challenges -- issues that she and her predecessors long have highlighted without much success. To start, the agency is under pressure to penalize not only Facebook but also other tech companies that mishandle consumers’ data. Both now register on the radar of an agency that is supposed to focus on deception.

Source: Washington Post May 04, 2018 15:45 UTC