The FTC uses “informational injuries” to mean harms consumers suffer from privacy or data-security incidents and information practices—both economic (market) and non‑market harms—caused by collection, use, or disclosure of personal data (examples include identity theft, doxing, disclosure of sensitive data, and loss of trust).
The workshop will examine: (1) quantifying informational injuries and benefits of data use; (2) impacts of data breaches and ways to minimize injuries; (3) costs and benefits of behavioral and contextual advertising; and (4) measuring consumer privacy preferences, beliefs, and decisions.
To register for in‑person attendance, use the FTC event registration form on the workshop event page (provide name, email, affiliation); you will receive a confirmation email. Online attendance will be via a webcast link that the FTC will post on the event page and on FTC.gov before the event.
The workshop is open to the public, free to attend; in‑person attendance requires prior registration and may be capacity limited (pre‑registration contact info may be disclosed under FOIA).
The event page and registration form note the FTC may consider written comments; the FTC’s FOIA/privacy notices say pre‑registration information and submitted comments can be collected and used, but the announcement does not provide a specific docket or deadline for formal comment—so explicit public‑comment instructions were not posted with the agenda.
The FTC did not commit to a particular report in the agenda; workshops typically are webcast and may produce a public agenda and materials (and the FTC sometimes issues staff perspectives or follow‑up reports), but the event page does not promise a formal policy report or recommendations after this workshop.
Organizers/speakers: the workshop is organized by the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection and Bureau of Economics; opening/closing remarks by Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson and Director Christopher Mufarrige; key organizers include Daniel Wood (Deputy Assistant Director, Bureau of Economics) and moderators from the FTC’s Divisions (e.g., Benjamin Wiseman, Mark Eichorn, Erik Jones); panelists are listed on the agenda (academics such as Alessandro Acquisti, Catherine Tucker, Ginger Jin, and others).