Hello, welcome back to Emlex's podcast. It's great to have your company again at the end of the Northern Hemisphere summer. I hope you've had a chance to relax. My name is James Panicki. I'm a senior editor here at

Emmex. And today something very special for you, an interview with Samuel Levine. Sam Levine is the

director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. He has an

interesting professional background and his name often comes

up in Emlex's regulatory coverage out of the U.S. He's speaking here with Mlex's chief global

digital risk correspondent, Mike Swift. Sam, thanks so much for taking a little time to chat with us today.

It's great to be here, Mike. So in recent weeks at the FTC, we've seen a

proposed blanket order prohibiting meta for monetizing health data. You've had a proposal to strengthen

the health breach notification rule. You've had orders against premom, better health, and better health

on sharing of health data for advertising. You've had an

order against Edmodo, prohibiting them from using kids' data for ads. You've had the first

major enforcement actions on privacy against Amazon and Microsoft in a couple of court settlements.

You've had an action against Ring for accessing consumer video.

You've had a lawsuit against Amazon over its alleged use of dark patterns, making it tougher

for consumers to cancel Prime.

And you've had a battle against Twitter to defend your ongoing privacy investigation against

them, which became public through court filings.

And you've sent a warning letter, along with health and human services, to about 130 hospitals

and health providers, warning them about the dangers of online tracking technologies.

And all of that has happened since May 3rd.

So my first question is, when are we going to get a break here, Sam? When's

summer vacations start? You've been pretty busy. Yeah, well, there's no doubt that we've been

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