Online Advertising & Tracking
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CPPA Votes to Advance Draft Regulations on ADMTs, Risk Assessments, and Cybersecurity
November 8, 2024
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) voted today to advance to formal rulemaking the draft regulations for automated decision-making technology (ADMT), risk assessments, and cybersecurity audits. EPIC testified today in support of these draft regulations.
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Consumer Privacy
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Screening & Scoring
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Updates
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Massachusetts’ Top Court Rejects Privacy Arguments, Holds that Hospital Website Tracking is Not a Wiretap
November 1, 2024
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Protection
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Health and Reproductive Privacy
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Updates
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Media Post: Meta Could Face Suit By Federal Government Over Financial Ads
November 1, 2024
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Minimization
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Social Media Privacy
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News
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FTC Report on Streaming and Social Media Companies Emphasizes Privacy, Security, and AI-Related Risks
September 30, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission published the results from its 6(b) study on streaming and social media companies, detailing vast commercial surveillance of consumers—including non-users—for the purposes of monetizing of their personal information.
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Children's Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Protection
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Location Tracking
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Social Media Privacy
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Updates
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EPIC Applauds FTC Prohibition Against Avast’s Disclosure of Sensitive Information for Advertising Purposes
April 29, 2024
Avast marketed software to consumers that the company promised would limit tracking online by blocking invasive third-party cookies. But even as it promised privacy protection, Avast collected and sold consumers’ sensitive browsing information to third parties.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Protection
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Intelligence Surveillance
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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EPIC Applauds FTC’s Modernization of COPPA Rule, Recommends Improvements to Curb Behavioral Advertising and Protect Privacy for Children Online
March 12, 2024
In comments filed yesterday with the FTC, EPIC applauded the Commission’s efforts to modernize the COPPA Rule and introduced several recommendations to improve the efficacy of the proposed changes to the Rule.
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Children's Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Cybersecurity
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Data Protection
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Data Security
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Updates
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Comments of EPIC to the FTC on Amending the COPPA Rule
March 12, 2024
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) submits these comments in response to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)’s Request for Comment on proposed modifications to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA).[1] These modifications are a result of a years-long process to strengthen and modernize COPPA’s protections for children online, a goal which EPIC enthusiastically supports.
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Children's Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Cybersecurity
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Data Protection
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Data Security
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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APA Comments
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EPIC Urges Ninth Circuit to Rebuff Google’s “Notice and Choice” Defense in Browser Tracking Suit
December 23, 2023
Yesterday, EPIC filed an amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit to reverse a lower court ruling that Google was not liable for tracking Chrome users’ browsing data. EPIC argued that Google’s general terms of service disclaimers cannot override specific privacy promises made to Chrome users.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Protection
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Updates
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Calhoun, et al. v. Google
December 23, 2023
EPIC’s brief supports the Plaintiffs’ arguments that a jury could find that a reasonable user understood Google’s specific heightened privacy promises contained in the Chrome Privacy Notice to mean that Google would not collect the information it expressly promised not to and therefore that Google did not establish the affirmative defense of consent.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Protection
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Enforcement of Privacy Laws
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Amicus Briefs
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