Alvaro Bedoya, a privacy advocate and visiting professor of law at Georgetown, has been nominated as one of five commissioners to the Federal Trade Commission.The White House announced Joe Biden’s nomination of Bedoya on Monday.If confirmed, Bedoya likely will be another staunch advocate of taking robust action to rein in the power of big tech platforms.
He is the founding director of the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law. The White House noted that his Bedoya’s research and report on facial recognition technology that paved the way for new restrictions on the use of the practice.Bedoya would succeed Rohit Chopra, who Biden has selected to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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