I recently contributed two pieces to Tech Policy Press on the state of privacy rights in the United States:
- The first article responded to a request for “hot takes“ on the recently announced American Privacy Rights Act. After diving into the draft bill, I ended up having much to say about the bill’s core “data minimization” provisions. TLDR: APRA’s approach to data minimization would be a data governance game changer . . . assuming the bill could ever get signed into law.
- A few weeks later I wanted to respond to all of the major headlines about the FCC’s $200 million fine against the nation’s wireless carriers for illicitly sharing their customer’s geolocation information. Building on the dissents from the FCC’s Republican commissioners, which will become arguments of the wireless carriers in their already announced appeal, I wrote about how our legalistic approach to privacy is failing Americans. (FWIW, the IAPP’s Cobun Zweifel-Keegan perhaps had a better take on how companies ignore privacy’s evolving context.)
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