Data Protection
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 Friday approved regulations aimed at...
Landmark California Consumer Privacy Act Would Have Let People Block Facebook’s Sharing of Private Data, Consumer Watchdog says
LOS ANGELES – Facebook’s latest revealed privacy invasion could have been thwarted if the landmark California Consumer Privacy Act were in effect and the strong state law must not...
Massive Marriott Data Breach Shows Need for California Consumer Privacy Act
LOS ANGELES -- Marriott International’s massive data breach in which the personal information of up to 500 million guests could have been stolen shows the value of the recently enacted...
Google+ Data Breach Shows Internet Giant Cannot Be Trusted to Police Its Platform
LOS ANGELES – The data breach of Google’s social network, Google+, that the company hid since last March, shows that the Internet Giant cannot be trusted to police its...
Privacy Bill’s Progress in California Senate is Victory for Consumers, Consumer Watchdog Says
LOS ANGELES – The 5-0 vote today by the California Senate’s Judiciary Committee to move a compromise privacy bill forward was a significant step toward ensuring Californian’s privacy, Consumer...
Consumer Watchdog Backs California Privacy Bill Compromise, AB 375
Privacy is a right enshrined in the California Constitution. The only problem is that there are few laws and regulations in place to actually protect our privacy, particularly when it...
Consumer Watchdog Calls on Congress to Act to Regulate Facebook and Protect Online Privacy
LOS ANGELES – Consumer Watchdog today called on Congress to enact legislation that would protect consumers’ online privacy and not merely facilitate Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s latest public-relations-driven apology...
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