Latest Privacy Releases
Corporations Are Making a Last-Ditch Effort to Stop Californians from Taking Control of Their Personal Data
The biggest lobbying arm of corporations in California has filed a lawsuit seeking to delay enforcement of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the...
How New CA Privacy Regulations Can Be Drawn to Stop Biased Algorithms
Los Angeles, CA—Today Consumer Watchdog released a report spotlighting the profiling flaws of algorithms and submitted a letter this week to the state privacy...
Unseen Hand: How Automatic Decision-making Breeds Discrimination and What Can Be Done About It
Consumer Watchdog released a report spotlighting the profiling flaws of algorithms and submitted a letter this week to the state privacy agency outlining how...
Federal Data Privacy Preemption is Not Dead
Congress showed interest in the American Data Privacy and Protection Act last week, and California has sent another letter urging lawmakers to strike state...
City of LA Must Stop Approving Digital Ad Contracts That Violate Privacy Laws
Today Consumer Watchdog called on the city’s new leadership to address a bus shelter contract approved by the City Council that tracks people’s location via digital ads on our public sidewalks.
New Financial Data Privacy Bill Gets Endorsement From…Wall Street
Welcome to the latest Truth in Privacy dispatch, Consumer Watchdog's tech and privacy newsletter.
There is a new threat to financial data privacy, and it...
CA Privacy Board OKs Landmark Personal Data Regulations, Some Key Protections Left Out
Los Angeles, CA—After nearly a year of rulemaking and over 1,000 pages of public comments later, the country’s first dedicated data privacy agency on...
Landmark Privacy Law Will Take Effect Without Final Regulations
April is the earliest regulations will be done.
Privacy Board Walks Back Some Pro-Consumer Regulations, Nears CPRA Finalization
Welcome to the latest Truth in Privacy dispatch, Consumer Watchdog's tech and privacy newsletter.
Two years since the passage of the voter-approved California Privacy Rights...
Last-Minute Proposed Changes Could Weaken Landmark CA Privacy Rules
Los Angeles, CA—As California begins to finalize a groundbreaking privacy law this week, Consumer Watchdog is calling on the agency drafting regulations to tighten...
Privacy Dawn: What’s At Stake With Our Data and How It’s Being Protected
Our personal data is sold hundreds of times a day and worth hundreds of billions of dollars, but if regulations for a first-in-the-nation privacy...
Privacy Groups Urge Pelosi to Halt Preemption of California Privacy Law
Los Angeles, CA -- Consumer Watchdog and a coalition of nonprofits opposed preemption of California’s landmark privacy law in a letter sent to House Speaker Nancy...
Consumer Watchdog Calls on State Privacy Board to Tighten Draft Regulations as Hearings Commence
Los Angeles, CA -- As a two-day comment period begins today over new privacy regulations, Consumer Watchdog is highlighting stringent rules for personal data...
How Consumers Lose If California’s Landmark Privacy Law is Preempted
California lawmakers enacted the nation’s strongest online privacy law in 2018 with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and voters strengthened that law’s protections...
Corporations Are Spreading Privacy Law Disinformation
The era of more online privacy is approaching, and California is a pioneer. This is our first Truth in Privacy dispatch. Last week, a...
California Poised to Be First State to Stop Geolocation Tracking, New Report Shows Need For Privacy Protections From Connected Cars
LOS ANGELES, CA — A new report details the privacy problems posed for consumers from connected cars and points to new rules to be...
Connected Cars and the Threat to Your Privacy
A new report details the privacy problems posed for consumers from connected cars and points to new rules to be developed in California as...
Consumer Watchdog Applauds NHTSA Investigation of Tesla Over Autopilot Problems
Los Angeles, CA – The nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog applauded the decision by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to investigate Tesla’s Autopilot feature...
Consumer Watchdog Hacks A Tesla to Prove Dangers of Wirelessly Connected Cars
Los Angeles, CA – The nonprofit, nonpartisan Consumer Watchdog today released a video showing how a box it built with the help of technologists...
Connected Car Report 2020: The Models Most Open To Hacks
“Connected Car Report 2020: The Models Most Open To Hacks," finds all of Car and Driver’s top 10 best-selling cars for 2020 clearly have features...
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