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KOSA, the KIDS Act, AI, Bad Internet Bills, and a potential giveaway to big tech (UPDATED)

Just say no to bills that age restrict, censor, and surveil the internet!

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Federal privacy legislation update: the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA)

Expect a fierce legislative battle!

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Business is business: Snap, Microsoft, and X endorse the anti-LGBTQ+, pro-censorship KOSA bill

What's important is *looking like* they're trying to protect children -- even though KOSA would actually harm kids

July 20-28. Bad internet bills week of action. Take action. Badinternetbills.com. An orange background, with white text.

Can the Fediverse help stop Bad Internet Bills?

The July 20-28 Week of Action is a good time to experiment!

Privacy please - hands off my data!

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The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act has a House Judiciary Committee markup tomorrow!

If all goes well, the committee will advance a (potentially-amended) version of the bill ... a huge step forward!

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That's a wrap (for now): federal privacy legislation update, December 23

It's official: at the end of the day, nothing passed

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Federal Privacy Legislation: What's likely to happen the "lame duck" session?

Your thoughts welcome!

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Federal privacy legislation: a quick ADPPA roundup

One of Big Tech's favorite tactics in their incessant attempts to pass weak privacy here in Washington state has been to try to push a "compromise" bill through at the very end of the session.... So it wouldn't surprise me if there are still

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"An alphabet soup of federal privacy legislation"

A webinar -- and actions!

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Who could have predicted? A potential "new compromise" for ADPPA!

Can we talk about something besides preempting California for a second?

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Stress-testing privacy legislation with a queer lens

It turned out to be a very interesting process!

ADPPA's data minimization and duty of loyalty: a deep dive

Work in progress!

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Let's talk about the elephant: how well does ADPPA protect against post-Roe threats?

Let's talk about the elephant in the room.

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ADPPA's algorithmic impact assessments are too weak to protect civil rights -- but it's not too late to strengthen them

There's still time to improve the federal consumer privacy bill.

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The opportunity and the elephant: Federal Privacy Legislation Update, August 8

Even before June's Supreme Court decision ending Roe, Congress was under a lot of pressure to act on privacy – a recent poll says 80% of Americans want them to act, thanks to a steady stream of reporting on data abuse by government agencies, ed tech companies exploiting kids

ADPPA Advances. But what about the elephant? Federal Privacy Legislation Update, July 26

ADPPA Advances. But what about the elephant? Federal Privacy Legislation Update, July 26

Will ADPPA protect pregnant people?

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A "fresh wrench", two hearings, and a busy week: Federal Privacy Legislation Update, July 17

With less than a month before Congress leave town again, this will be a busy week on the federal privacy legislation front.

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Talking about the elephant: Federal Privacy Legislation Update, July 8

How will the end of Roe impact proposed federal privacy legislation?

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Three lessons from "the other Washington" -- Federal Privacy Legislation Update, 6/22

ADPPA update, and lessons from WA state's legislative battles over privacy

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Federal privacy legislation: It'll be an interesting summer! (UPDATED)

ADPPA, COPRA, HLDPA and more!