36 hours before advancing out of subcommittee to the full Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday, lawmakers released a revised version of the American Privacy Rights Act

The American Privacy Rights Act Would Virtually Defang the California Privacy Protection Agency.

The top campaign contributor to APRA's author, Sen. Maria Cantwell, is Microsoft, who is endorsing the bill.

With Congress at an all-time low in terms of the amount of legislation it has passed, the public is turning to the state level as a way to push forward change.

Do the regs have a loophole?

In the wake of the publishing of Consumer Watchdog’s report on Clearview AI, both the company’s CEO, Hoan Ton-That, and General Counsel, Jack Mulcaire, objected to...

The state’s top data privacy enforcer, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), has voted on to send a package of rules surrounding data cyber security...

More and more, AI is making decisions for us without us evening knowing it. On Monday, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) released draft language for...

While companies such as Open AI, Meta and Google have agreed to promote “safety, security and transparency” regarding their AI technology with the Biden Administration, the agreement rings more like a virtue signaling public relations move than meaningful action.

The new head of enforcement for the California Privacy Protection Agency was mostly recently a top lawyer for Amazon who defended the monopoly against...

We’re getting our first peek at how the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is approaching its next round of rulemaking surrounding what control we have over our personal information collected by businesses.

California’s new data privacy law won’t take effect until March 29, 2024 after a superior court judge Friday ruled the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) didn’t pass regulations in a timely manner.

The biggest lobbying arm of corporations in California has filed a lawsuit seeking to delay enforcement of the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the...

Congress showed interest in the American Data Privacy and Protection Act last week, and California has sent another letter urging lawmakers to strike state...

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...

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...

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...

The era of more online privacy is approaching, and California is a pioneer. This is our first Truth in Privacy dispatch. Last week, a...

Californians enacted the strongest privacy law in America, Proposition 24, the California Privacy Rights Act, on election night by 56%. Proposition 24 will reshape not...

A dangerous bill that would have assaulted Californians’ privacy rights has been held this session. Assembly member Tom Daly’s AB 981 would have created...