Last week, we wrote about the importance of state governments’ role in protecting consumer privacy, particularly when the federal government fails to pass (or repeals) privacy laws. Today, CDT launched its State Privacy Resource Center, a repository of materials to help state legislators and policymakers craft, support, and enforce effective privacy protections. The resources you will find here include a guide to defining technology-related terms, a state-by-state compendium of student privacy laws, and a discussion of the impact of digital technology on workplace privacy.
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So far, 2017 has been a bad year for consumer privacy protections at the federal level. In response, state lawmakers are working to protect consumer privacy where the federal government has fallen short. The role of the states in protecting privacy is more important than ever, and it’s disappointing to see federal lawmakers and industry groups attempt to gut states’ authority to protect consumers.
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CDT’s Tech Talk is a podcast where we dish on tech and Internet policy, while also explaining what these policies mean to our daily lives. In this episode, we talk all about data and privacy, specifically what states are doing on the privacy front, and then we explore issues around privacy and fintech.
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Yesterday, Twitter rolled out a material update to its privacy policy. While we don’t agree with all of the updates, Twitter’s revision and the process by which it informed users of the change should be applauded.
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Overall, we support the Commission’s decision to rewrite and update the aging 2002 ePrivacy Directive. However, the draft Regulation has such a broad scope that it threatens the possibility of unintended consequences for both the existing online ecosystem and unduly inhibiting innovative new products and services.
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To comply with the executive order, DHS released new policy guidance on April 27. The new policy acknowledges that DHS can no longer extend statutory Privacy Act protections to non-U.S. persons, but it also explains what the agency must do to continue to protect the privacy of non-U.S. persons. It’s still early to tell how the policy will work in practice, but here are a few takeaways.
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This is the May issue of CDT’s monthly EU Tech Policy Brief. It highlights some of the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe, the US, and internationally, and gives CDT’s perspective on them.
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Earlier this year, DHS proposed to begin requesting information pertaining to Chinese visitors’ social media identifiers. This is not the first time we have seen this type of proposal from DHS. In 2016, CDT and over 30 other organizations raised concerns that a DHS proposal asking people traveling to the U.S. through the Visa Waiver Program to volunteer information about their “online presence” and social media use amounted to an expansion of surveillance of U.S. visitors and residents alike. Last week, CDT argued that the new proposal would raise the same issues.
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Connected vehicles have tremendous potential to reshape the transportation landscape – bringing important safety and efficiency benefits but also creating new security and privacy risks. In addition, there are long-standing security and privacy issues that, if not resolved, will be compounded with the continued trends towards greater use of software and connectivity in motor vehicles. Our comments focus on three main issues: the need for secure software, the increasing dependence on critical information infrastructures, and the need for greater transparency around data privacy.
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CDT’s Tech Talk is a podcast where we dish on tech and Internet policy, while also explaining what these policies mean to our daily lives. In this episode, we talk with Courtney Radsch of the Committee to Protect Journalists on the multifaceted issue of “fake news”.
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