Tag: Data Minimization

Data Minimization: Bolstering The FTC’s Health Data Privacy Authority

Among the categories of personal data collected seemingly without restriction in the United States, consumer health data is both particularly sensitive and particularly lucrative. In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in telehealth, health and fitness apps, and other online health products, resulting in an enormous volume of health data collection and abuse that falls outside of the narrow protections of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Health Privacy

• Analysis

Data Minimization: Limiting the Scope of Permissible Data Uses to Protect Consumers

This is the second in a series of blog posts about EPIC’s proposal for a data minimization standard to limit commercial surveillance and protect consumer privacy.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Analysis

Data Minimization: Centering Reasonable Consumer Expectation in the FTC’s Commercial Surveillance Rulemaking

We face a data privacy crisis in the United States. Unrestricted data collection has eroded consumer privacy.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Analysis

European Bodies Held Accountable for Privacy Violations