Under Biden, the outgoing FTC did *incredible* work to fill this gap, using its authority under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (which outlaws "unfair and deceptive" practices) to plug some of the worst gaps in consumer privacy law:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/gouging-the-all-seeing-eye/#i-spy
And Biden's CFPB promulgated a rule that basically *bans* data brokers:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/#deliverism
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