FTC to Eye Facebook, Google Data Moves at Virtual Study Session

The Federal Trade Commission Tuesday will assess its role in overseeing how companies including Facebook Inc. let users transfer data to other platforms like Dropbox Inc.

The FTC is holding a workshop that includes speakers from government, academia, Alphabet Inc.‘s Google and Mastercard Inc. The event may lead to agency policy recommendations, though the commission for now is trying to sort through complex questions, such as who is responsible for protecting people’s data while it is in transit between platforms.

“The FTC is feeling its way through what this should look like,” said Megan Brown, a tech-focused partner at ...