The U.S. does not have any meaningful privacy protection laws when it comes to the data that Internet companies collect about us. The Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop that examines how privacy impacts the use of facial recognition technology. The European Parliament approved a directive on Internet privacy that, among other things, required user opt-in before websites could install cookies on the user’s computer. The EU has been trying to figure out just what might constitute opt in in the context of the directive.”]