Data Brokers
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Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition
February 14, 2025
Every time you step into a grocery store, you step into a machinery of data that tracks, analyzes, shares, and influences your shopping behavior. Based on shopping history and data shared from data brokers—including internet browsing history and online purchases—grocery stores may infer your age, gender, race, economic status, family makeup, health conditions, or other lifestyle characteristics.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Brokers
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Data Minimization
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Analysis
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EPIC Denounces Administration’s Assault on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
February 13, 2025
Over the past week, the Trump administration and associates of Elon Musk have escalated their existential attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), effectively shutting down a vital federal agency that protects consumers from harmful business and personal data practices by banks and other financial companies. EPIC condemns this coordinated assault on consumers, which undermines one of the most effective champions for the public interest anywhere in government.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Brokers
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Data Security
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Updates
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EPIC, Coalition Amici: Congress Gave FCC Authority to Protect Phone Location Data
January 30, 2025
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Communications Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Cybersecurity
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Data Brokers
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Data Protection
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Data Security
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Enforcement of Privacy Laws
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Location Tracking
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Updates
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Eleventh Circuit Vacates Robocall Consent Protection Before It Takes Effect
January 30, 2025
On January 24, 2025, the Eleventh Circuit vacated the Federal Communications Commission's Rule requiring individualized consent to send consumers robocalls.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Brokers
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Robocalls
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Updates
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These Pregnancy Apps May Be Sources for a Location Data Broker
January 30, 2025
Russian hackers posted on the dark web in early January with a news-making claim: they had breached notorious location data broker Gravy Analytics. On top of leaking a sample of phone pings in the White House, the Kremlin, and Vatican City, the hackers revealed another troubling possibility: the broker extracting data from a host of pregnancy and reproductive health apps.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Brokers
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Data Protection
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Health and Reproductive Privacy
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Analysis
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T-Mobile/Sprint v. FCC and USA (CPNI Location Enforcement)
January 28, 2025
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Communications Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Cybersecurity
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Data Brokers
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Data Protection
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Data Security
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Enforcement of Privacy Laws
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Location Tracking
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Amicus Briefs
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Verizon v. FCC and USA (CPNI Location Enforcement)
January 28, 2025
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Communications Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Cybersecurity
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Data Brokers
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Data Protection
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Data Security
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Enforcement of Privacy Laws
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Location Tracking
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Amicus Briefs
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EPIC, Coalition Caution Against the Use of Information From Commercial Data Brokers in Research
January 15, 2025
EPIC joined the Brennan Center, Demand Progress, and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project in comments to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) regarding “Ethical Guidelines for Research Using Pervasive Data.”
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Brokers
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Government Databases
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Privacy in Public
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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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.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Brokers
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Data Protection
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Analysis
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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
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Brokers
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Data Protection
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Location Tracking
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Updates
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