Biden Nominates Georgetown Privacy Law Professor Bedoya to FTC

President Joe Biden plans to nominate Georgetown University law professor Alvaro Bedoya to be a Democratic commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission, the White House said Monday.

Bedoya, a privacy law expert who leads the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown’s law school, would replace FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra, who has been nominated to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Bedoya would bolster the commission’s expertise in privacy and data security, which is increasingly becoming one of its high-profile responsibilities in addition to antitrust enforcement. The agency in 2019 fined Facebook Inc. a record $5 billion ...