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

Google Ad Topics: Another Cog in the Surveillance Advertising Machine

After falling behind its competitors and facing criticism for previous plans to phase out third-party cookies, Google now touts Ad Topics for its benefits to user privacy and transparency. But Google’s new tool is far from a perfect solution to the harms of surveillance advertising.

Competition and Privacy
Consumer Privacy
Analysis

EPIC Urges DOJ, FTC to Consider Data Protection and Consumer Privacy in Merger Guidelines

Mergers frequently involve the consolidation of data sets, which as EPIC explained “can entrench a firm’s dominant market position, raise barriers to entry for new and smaller firms, and exacerbate the effects of harmful consumer data practices.”

Competition and Privacy
Consumer Privacy
Cybersecurity
Data Protection
Data Security
Updates

Draft California Risk Assessment Regulations Are a Promising Start

The comments include proposals on cybersecurity audits, risk assessments, and automated decision-making systems and urge the agency to protect Californians by drawing on strong existing frameworks and ensuring that consumers’ rights to opt out and receive information are easy to exercise.

AI in the Criminal Justice System
AI Policy
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
Commercial AI Use
Government AI Use
Screening & Scoring
Analysis

EPIC Commends FTC Rulemaking to Expand Health Breach Notification Rule, Urges Expansion

In comments to the Federal Trade Commission, EPIC applauded the proposed modifications to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR).

Cybersecurity
Data Protection
Data Security
Health Privacy
Updates

EPIC Commends FTC’s Vitagene Genetic and Health Data Settlement

In comments to the Federal Trade Commission, EPIC commended the FTC for taking enforcement action against direct-to-consumer genetic testing company Vitagene for unfair and deceptive trade practices involving genetic and health information.

Cybersecurity
Data Protection
Data Security
Health Privacy
Updates

EPIC Recommends Focusing on Harms and Regulation in National AI Strategy

EPIC called on the administration "to center risks, rights, and responsibilities in its approach to AI rather than prioritizing aggressive adoption of automated decision-making technologies."

AI in the Criminal Justice System
AI Policy
Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
Commercial AI Use
Government AI Use
Screening & Scoring
Updates

EPIC Commends Proposed HIPAA Reproductive Health Safeguards, Calls on HHS to Further Strengthen Rule

In comments to the Department of Health and Human Services, EPIC praised HHS for proposing new reproductive health safeguards for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and called on the agency to expand those protections.

Data Protection
Health Privacy
Updates

EPIC Urges OSTP to Consider Full Range of Workplace Surveillance Harms

IC urged the Administration to "take a broad view of worker surveillance and consider the multiplicity of harms created by surveillance, both when it works as intended and when it goes off the rails."

Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
Data Protection
Screening & Scoring
Workplace Privacy
Updates

EPIC, Coalition Back FTC’s Move to Bar Meta From Monetizing Children’s Data

EPIC, the Center for Digital Democracy, Fairplay, US PIRG, and 30 other organizations today sent a letter to the FTC supporting the Commission's efforts to modify and strengthen its 2020 privacy order against Meta.

Children's Privacy
Data Protection
Updates

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

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