Blogs

The White House AI Guidelines: PR Over Policy

July 27, 2023  ·  Justin Kloczko

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.

What Will CA Data Privacy Enforcement Look Like if it’s Headed by a Former Amazon Lawyer?

July 18, 2023  ·  Justin Kloczko

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

CA Privacy Agency Rolls Out Preliminary AI Regs

July 17, 2023  ·  Justin Kloczko

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.

Judge Delays CA Data Privacy Law to 2024

June 30, 2023  ·  Justin Kloczko

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.

Corporations Are Making a Last-Ditch Effort to Stop Californians from Taking Control of Their Personal Data

April 4, 2023  ·  Justin Kloczko

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

Federal Data Privacy Preemption is Not Dead

March 7, 2023  ·  Justin Kloczko

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

New Financial Data Privacy Bill Gets Endorsement From…Wall Street

February 9, 2023  ·  Justin Kloczko

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...

Privacy Board Walks Back Some Pro-Consumer Regulations, Nears CPRA Finalization

November 1, 2022  ·  Justin Kloczko

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...

How Consumers Lose If California’s Landmark Privacy Law is Preempted

August 17, 2022  ·  Carmen Balber

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 at...

Corporations Are Spreading Privacy Law Disinformation

May 13, 2022  ·  Justin Kloczko

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

Privacy Rising With Passage of Prop 24

November 6, 2020  ·  Jamie Court

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...

Victory: Privacy Invasion Bill Gets Held Back

July 3, 2019  ·  Adam Scow

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 exemptions...