Tag: Data Minimization
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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.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Minimization
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Privacy Laws
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U.S. State Privacy Laws
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Updates
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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.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Minimization
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Privacy Laws
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U.S. State Privacy Laws
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Updates
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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.
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Children's Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Minimization
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Data Protection
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Privacy Laws
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U.S. State Privacy Laws
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Updates
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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.
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Consumer Privacy
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Cybersecurity
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Data Minimization
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Data Protection
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Data Security
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Health and Reproductive Privacy
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Analysis
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EPIC Testifies in Support of Vermont Age Appropriate Design Code
February 19, 2025
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Age Assurance
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Children's Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Minimization
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Data Protection
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Platform Accountability & Governance
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Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
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Privacy Laws
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U.S. State Privacy Laws
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Updates
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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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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.
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Minimization
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Privacy Laws
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U.S. State Privacy Laws
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Updates
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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.
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Consumer Privacy
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Cybersecurity
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Data Brokers
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Data Minimization
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Data Protection
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Data Security
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Updates
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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.
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Commercial AI Use
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Government AI Use
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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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