Hello, welcome to another audio special from Emlex. My name is James Panicki. I'm a senior editor with the

Emlex Asia team, and it's great to have your company. Today, a very special

event from the US, the recording of a fireside chat between our global digital risk correspondent,

Mike Swift, and Benjamin Wiseman, the Associate Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Division

of Privacy and Identity Protection.

The conversation was recorded in Washington, D.C. recently, and it touches on some of the very

big privacy issues of the moment, the degree to which the public is providing consent to the use

of its personal data, unfair conduct of artificial intelligence operators, and the

protection of miners as they interact and play online. It's a fascinating conversation and one that

we were able to bring you as an Mlex special event. I'll leave you now in the capable hands

of Mlex's Mike Swift.

Last summer, I wrote an article where I said, this was late August, I think,

that the previous 90 days had been arguably the most important period in the history of privacy

enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission,

the 25 years, which is a big statement. But at that time, you had started doing a number of

really unprecedented things. You had moved to block meta platforms from monetizing the data

of young people. You had blocked a popular fertility app, Premom, which I think has had

tens of millions of downloads from sharing its users' data with advertisers. You had proposed

strengthening the health breach notification rule. You had a very interesting settlement with Amazon

about its use of recordings of personally identifiable voice biometric

information of children under Kappa. You had litigation against Twitter where you're trying to

depose Elon Musk. Microsoft, you had a suit against Kachava over location data. So you guys had been

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