WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumer Reports and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) today released a white paper that provides a detailed roadmap for how the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should issue privacy rules under its unfair practices authority. Justin Brookman, director of technology policy at Consumer Reports, said, “We have been waiting decades for Congress to provide baseline…
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LGBTQ advocates speak up for student privacy concerns
Kristen Rary reports: A local elementary school student is at the center of a federal lawsuit. It’s over a parent’s right to know about their child’s on-going discussions with a school counselor about gender identity and bullying. The Clay County parents say they were only alerted after their child tried to commit suicide. Read more…
State attorneys general sue Google with ‘dark patterns’ claims
Joseph Duball reports: The rally for heightened U.S. enforcement against so-called “dark patterns” pushed forward Monday with a group of state attorneys general filing or preparing to file lawsuits over alleged dark patterns linked to Google’s location data practices. Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine announced he and attorneys general from Indiana, Texas and Washington State were…
18 More Federal Agencies Eye Making Vaccine Religious-Objector Lists
Sarah Parshall Perry and GianCarlo Canaparo of Meese Center write: This week, we revealed that an obscure federal agency plans to keep lists of the “personal religious information” employees who had religious objections to the federal employee vaccine mandate. As it turns out, the little-known Pre-trial Services Agency for the District of Columbia isn’t the only federal agency involved. As we…