(Hoofnagle 2016). As part of this regime, “compliance reports” are publicly
available online at the FTC website, but the mandated third-party audits, which
initially caused excitement as a possible transparency mechanism, are only
published in heavily redacted and jargon-heavy form. These audits are thin on
substance due to the watered-down language in the ﬁnal FTC decree, making
them, as one legal scholar argued, “so vague or duplicative as to be
meaningless” (Gray 2018, p. 4). The German Network Enforcement Act
(NetzDG), which went into force at the beginning of 2018, seems to be the
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