---
title: "Lina Khan"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Lina Khan"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-10-20T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Federal Trade Commission","tech-sector enforcement","privacy regulation","consent","Cerebral settlement"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
---


American legal scholar and antitrust lawyer who chaired the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2025, known for an unusually aggressive enforcement posture toward large tech and data-driven companies.

Enters this vault as the FTC Chair quoted in the Commission's April 2024 proposed order against telehealth company Cerebral, which she called "a first-of-its-kind prohibition" — an enforcement action barring a company from using sensitive health data for advertising at all, not merely requiring disclosure of the practice. Matters to this vault's privacy/consent-enforcement thread as the official voice behind that distinction.

## References
- [[claim-ftc-2024-cerebral-settlement-7-million-sensitive-health-data-to-advertisers]]
- Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-10-20-outside-arxiv261023851-bad-diagnosis-analyzing-consent-and-data.md