Tag: Data Minimization

  • EPIC Testifies in Support of Strong Privacy Bill in Maine

    May 7, 2025

    EPIC's testimony also opposed three bills that would not adequately protect Mainers' privacy.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • Connecticut AG Issues Report Urging Legislature to Adopt Strong Data Minimization

    April 25, 2025

    The Connecticut Attorney General's office published a new report discussing trends after its first year enforcing of the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) and recommending legislative fixes that would allow the office to better protect consumers' privacy.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • Arkansas Legislature Passes Privacy Bill Expanding Enhanced COPPA Protections to Teens

    April 18, 2025

    This week, the Arkansas Legislature passed the Arkansas Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (HB 1717). The bill is modeled off the existing federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) framework but would build on COPPA’s existing protections extend those privacy protections for teens aged 13-16.

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Online Advertising & Tracking

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • Bankrupt Genetic Data: Minimizing and Privacy-Protecting Data from the Start

    April 14, 2025

    The scenario now at hand—an untold number of buyers able to potentially grab up the genetic data troves collected and analyzed by 23andMe—is a forceful reminder of the need for better data privacy and security protections. Nothing can eliminate the possibility that a company collecting data goes bankrupt. But companies and policymakers can and should do better in mitigating the risks from any potential bankruptcy-data fallout ahead of time.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Cybersecurity

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Data Security

    • Health and Reproductive Privacy

    • Analysis

  • EPIC Testifies in Support of Vermont Age Appropriate Design Code

    February 19, 2025

    • Age Assurance

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • 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.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Brokers

    • Data Minimization

    • Online Advertising & Tracking

    • Analysis

  • Michigan Senate Passes Michigan Personal Data Privacy Act

    December 13, 2024

    EPIC testified in support of the bill and urges Michigan Representatives to also vote to pass this bill in the House's remaining few days in session.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • CFPB Finalizes Strong Personal Financial Data Rights Rule with Data Minimization Requirements 

    October 24, 2024

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finalized new regulations to implement Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act. The rule promotes financial inclusion and lays down some of the strongest consumer privacy protections in federal law.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Cybersecurity

    • Data Brokers

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Data Security

    • Updates

  • EPIC Pushes NIST to Focus its Approach to Generative AI Risks Around Who and How AI Harms

    June 4, 2024

    This past weekend, EPIC submitted comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with feedback on three draft documents the agency has produced in response to President Biden’s AI Executive Order, including additional recommendations on generative AI risk classification, AI transparency, and stakeholder engagement.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Government AI Use

    • Updates

  • 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.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Online Advertising & Tracking

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates