Obama's Last Word On Privacy?

In one of its final acts in office, on January 17, 2017, the Obama Administration released a report on privacy entitled "Privacy in our Digital Lives: Protecting Individuals and Promoting Innovation."

The report recounts key actions taken by the administration over the past eight years to protect consumer privacy, including:

• redesigning the FTC Identify.gov website to provide resources to victims of identity theft;
• supporting the FCC in issuing broadband consumer privacy rules that require broadband providers to obtain affirmative consent from customers to use and share sensitive proprietary information;
• publishing best practices for operating drones that take into account privacy considerations;