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. With Congress still showing interest in a federal data privacy law, there are renewed...

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.

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 comes in the form of a proposed federal law that only appears to protect...

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 Friday approved regulations aimed at giving consumers unprecedented control over their private data. The California...

April is the earliest regulations will be done.

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 Act (CPRA), the board tasked with drawing regulations for the law is nearing the...

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 rules so users can take back their private data.    Last-minute changes to the rules include...

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 Pelosi today urging her to protect the rights of 40 million Californians. The California Consumer...

Los Angeles, CA -- As a two-day comment period begins today over new privacy regulations, Consumer Watchdog is highlighting stringent rules for personal data use as well as red flags to be addressed if Californians wish to maximize...

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 the ballot in 2020 with the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). In many...