Online Privacy
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 rules so users can take...
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 law are drawn correctly, consumers...
The Daily Wire – Lauded Federal Data Privacy Bill Has A Carveout For Government Surveillance
By Ben Zeisloft, THE DAILY WIRE
https://www.dailywire.com/news/lauded-federal-data-privacy-bill-has-a-carveout-for-government-surveillance
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act, a key piece of federal online privacy legislation, appears to have a carveout for organizations gathering data...
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 Pelosi today urging her to...
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 use as well as red...
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 at the ballot in 2020...
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 slew of entities spoke about...
Consumer Watchdog Endorses Prop 24 For Consumer Privacy
Los Angeles, CA --- The nonprofit Consumer Watchdog today endorsed the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Proposition 24, as a major step forward to enshrine the privacy rights of Californians...
Consumer Watchdog Sues Zoom on Behalf of Public for Deceiving Users About Privacy Protections
Washington D.C. – The non-profit consumer advocacy group Consumer Watchdog filed a data privacy and security lawsuit late yesterday in Washington D.C. against Zoom Video Communications, Inc. The suit,...
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