Albuquerque Journal: Legislative committee advances privacy bill aimed at protecting consumers

Caitriona Fitzgerald, a national advocate for data privacy, testified that measures like this around the U.S. don’t go far enough. 

“They do little to change the status quo of companies being able to collect and use personal data however they like as long as they tell us what they are doing in a privacy policy that nobody reads,” Fitzgerald said. 

Fitzgerald’s organization, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, sent a letter to the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee denouncing the bill. 

“The bill seeks to provide to New Mexico consumers the right to know the information companies have collected about them, the right to access, correct and delete that information, as well as the right to stop the disclosure of certain information to third parties,” the letter said. “However, in its current form it would do little to protect New Mexico consumers’ personal information, or to rein in major tech companies like Google and Facebook.” 

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