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The consent decree with Macromark enabled greater oversight over data brokers collecting sensitive personal information on defrauded elders.
The Justice Department should issue guidance to clarify the line between covering up a data breach and merely declining to disclose it.
In 2015, a data broker helped anti-abortion groups target women in clinic waiting rooms. The Massachusetts attorney general decided to act.
Cryptocurrency security really is worse than other digital technologies, and there’s a good chance it always will be.
Three data brokers knowingly sold Americans’ data to scammers—and the Department of Justice charged them.
The internet is global, but the laws that govern it are not; designing digital platform regulations around shared modules can help relieve this tension.
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act would provide numerous substantive privacy protections that are long overdue.
Transparency reporting and data sharing aren’t the same. They aren’t even the right words.
Europe’s new Digital Markets Act is in tension with the General Data Protection Regulation, and the practical impact may be bad for privacy and competition.
The laws already in California and Vermont do not put any meaningful controls on companies selling, licensing and otherwise sharing Americans’ sensitive data on the open market—and the new bills are no different.