FTC Technology Blog: AI (and other) Companies: Quietly Changing Your Terms of Service Could Be Unfair or Deceptive (Federal Trade Commission, Office of Technology blog, 13 February 2024)
A company that collected data under one privacy promise cannot quietly rewrite its terms to use that data for AI training or share it with others: the FTC treats that as potentially unfair or deceptive. A holder licensing customer data is bound by the promises in force when the data was collected.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“And to avoid backlash from users who are concerned about their privacy, companies may try to make these changes surreptitiously. But market participants should be on notice that any firm that reneges on its user privacy commitments risks running afoul of the law.”
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