FTC Names New Chief Privacy Officer

Katherine Race Brin was named FTC chief privacy officer, succeeding Peter Miller, Chairwoman Edith Ramirez said Wednesday. Brin's job will be "to ensure that the FTC complies with our privacy obligations,” Ramirez said. The CPO “coordinates efforts to implement and review the agency’s policies and procedures for safeguarding all sensitive information, and chairs its Privacy Steering Committee and the Breach Notification Response Team,” the agency said in a news release. Before becoming acting CPO, Brin was senior adviser to the director of the Consumer Protection Bureau, where she worked on legislative and policy matters involving privacy, security and technology, the FTC said. From 2007 to 2014, Brin was a staff attorney in the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection and “played a key role in many of the FTC’s most significant privacy and data security cases,” the agency said.