March 29, 2024
Daily News
Bipartisan Senate bill directs FTC, NIST to develop IoT guidelines for consumers
A new bill introduced by Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) would require the Federal Trade Commission, in consultation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, to develop voluntary guidelines to protect consumers from cybersecurity threats from Internet of Things devices.
But the bill explicitly bans the FTC from using the approaches laid out in the guidance to conduct enforcement action based on a failure to promote or use such guidance.
Wicker and Hassan introduced the Internet...