DOJ Finalizes Mixed Bag Data Broker Regulation

New Jersey Comprehensive Privacy Law Takes Effect

January 16, 2025

While the law is still based on the industry-favored Connecticut Data Privacy Act, New Jersey legislators closed some loopholes and granted limited rulemaking authority to the state's Attorney General

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Data Minimization
Privacy Laws
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EPIC Applauds Critical Updates to COPPA Rule, Strengthening FTC’s Ability to Protect Kids’ Privacy

January 16, 2025

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) applauds today’s action by the Federal Trade Commission to strengthen and modernize the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule. Approved by a unanimous 5-0 vote, the updated COPPA Rule illustrates the Commission’s strong, bipartisan commitment to protecting kids’ privacy and safety online.

Children's Privacy
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Google and CEO Sundar Pichai Under Fire for Sending Americans’ Data to Foreign Adversaries in New National Security Complaint

January 16, 2025

Google sends enormous quantities of sensitive data about Americans to China and other foreign adversaries, according to evidence in a major complaint filed today at the FTC by EPIC and Enforce. This is the first ever complaint under the new Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act.

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Data Security
Online Advertising & Tracking
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EPIC, ICCL Enforce Complaint In re Google’s RTB

January 16, 2025

EPIC and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties Enforce urge the FTC to investigate Google's RTB

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Enforcement of Privacy Laws
Location Tracking
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What is Real Time Bidding?

January 15, 2025

Real Time Bidding (RTB) is an online advertising auction that uses sensitive personal information to facilitate the process to determine which digital ad will be displayed to a user on a given website or application. It happens 178 trillion times every year across the U.S. and Europe.

Consumer Privacy
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Online Advertising & Tracking
Analysis

EPIC Commends the Prohibition on the Collection and Sale of Location Information in Invasive Real Time Bidding System in FTC’s Mobilewalla Settlement

January 13, 2025

Consumer Privacy
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Data Protection
Location Tracking
Online Advertising & Tracking
Updates

Comments of EPIC in re the Federal Trade Commission’s Proposed Order & Settlement with Mobilewalla

January 13, 2025

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Data Minimization
Data Protection
Location Tracking
Online Advertising & Tracking
Comments

CFPB Finalizes Rule Removing Medical Debt from Credit Reports

January 10, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a rule this week that largely prohibits the inclusion of medical debt on credit reports and prohibits lenders from considering medical information when making lending decisions.

Consumer Privacy
Data Brokers
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Sixth Circuit Rejects FCC Authority Over ISPs

January 8, 2025

Communications Privacy
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Cybersecurity
Data Brokers
Data Protection
Data Security
Location Tracking
Online Advertising & Tracking
Robocalls
Updates

DOJ Finalizes Mixed Bag Data Broker Regulation

January 8, 2025

On December 27, the Department of Justice (DOJ) finalized its rule on Provisions Regarding Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and Government Related Data to Countries of Concern.

Consumer Privacy
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