Tag: Data Brokers

EPIC, Consumer Reports File Comments Urging California Privacy Agency to Strengthen Its Delete Request and Opt-out Platform

June 18, 2025

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Updates

EPIC Condemns CFPB’s Withdrawal of Proposed Rules to Rein in Data Brokers 

May 14, 2025

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is withdrawing a proposal to crack down on the data brokers that profit from buying and selling our most sensitive personal information at industrial scale.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. Privacy Laws

• Statements

EPIC Joins NCLC to Urge the CFPB to Protect Consumer Financial Privacy  

April 16, 2025

EPIC joined the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) in a comment responding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s request for information about consumer financial privacy.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. Privacy Laws

• Updates

EPIC, NCL, CFA, and Others Urge CFPB to Rein in Harmful Data Broker Practices 

April 2, 2025

In a comment filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today, EPIC, the National Consumers League (NCL), and Consumer Federation of America (CFA) urged the CFPB to finalize rules that would protect consumers from harm caused by data brokers.

• Consumer Privacy

• Cybersecurity

• Data Brokers

• Data Security

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. Privacy Laws

• Updates

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.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Robocalls

• Updates

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.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• Analysis

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.”

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Government Databases

• Privacy in Public

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

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

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Online Advertising & Tracking

• Analysis

FCC Tightens Rules for Robocall Mitigation Database Filings, After Threatening Mass Enforcement for Pervasive Non-Compliance

January 10, 2025

On January 8, the FCC released its Report and Order updating requirements for its Robocall Mitigation Database (RMD).

• Consumer Privacy

• 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

• Data Brokers

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates