Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it anticipates proposing a privacy rulemaking this month, with comments closing in August.  This announcement follows the agency’s statement in December that it planned to begin a rulemaking to “curb lax security practices, limit privacy abuses, and ensure that algorithmic decision-making does not result in unlawful discrimination.”  The rulemaking will be governed by Magnuson-Moss rulemaking procedures, which contain more procedural safeguards and substantive requirements than Administrative Procedure Act rulemaking.