Caitriona Fitzgerald
@caitrionafitz.bsky.social
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Privacy advocate • Deputy Director at
@epic.org
• Pronounced "Katrina,” just spelled the Irish way.
Happy Maryland Online Data Privacy Act effective date! As of today, Marylanders have some of the strongest privacy rights in the country. MODPA requires companies to align their data pratices with what consumers expect, not just collect data for whatever purpose they please.
epic.org/maryland-onl...
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Maryland Online Data Privacy Act Comes Into Effect
<p>Today, October 1, 2025, the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act came into effect. This law marks a significant shift in state privacy law landscape toward laws that meaningfully limit personal data co...
https://epic.org/maryland-online-data-privacy-act-comes-into-effect/
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Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of
#privacy
. I love my city.
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4 months ago
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Thank you Commissioner Slaughter for getting right back to work pushing the FTC to do it's job: protecting American consumers from harmful practices lie subscription traps!
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4 months ago
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Roger McNamee
5 months ago
Join
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
,
@carissaveliz.bsky.social
and me TODAY at 9am PT / noon ET / 5pm BT for a podcast on Substack entitled “Privacy Is Power”. Link is below.
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EPIC
5 months ago
🚨 JUST IN: On a 99-1 vote this morning, the Senate overwhelmingly passed an amendment to remove the "AI Moratorium," a budget bill provision that would have prevented states from passing regulations on AI systems for 10 years.
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In the wee hours of the morning, amendment 2814 by Senators Blackburn, Collins, and Cantwell stripping the AI state law moratorium from the bill passed 99-1!!! A huge thanks to my Senator
@markey.senate.gov
for his leadership on this too.
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5 months ago
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That’s my Senator! Thank you
@markey.senate.gov
for your leadership on this.
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EPIC
5 months ago
EPIC opposes the revised AI moratorium: “The multiple iterations of the AI state law moratorium demonstrate that, at the end of the day, members of Congress recognize that a sweeping ban on state-level AI regulation simply does not work,” said
@caitrionafitz.bsky.social
, EPIC's Deputy Director.
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Senator Ed Markey
6 months ago
The House’s 10-year ban on state AI regulation would wreak havoc on our country. The language is so broad that it could upend everything from state privacy law to contract law. It could even break the internet. I will do everything in my power to stop it.
www.techpolicy.press/the-big-beau...
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The Big Beautiful Bill Could Decimate Legal Accountability for Tech and Anything Tech Touches | TechPolicy.Press
To understand how the so-called “AI moratorium” will destroy state laws and the internet, consider the literal meaning of its text, writes David Brody.
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-big-beautiful-bill-could-decimate-legal-accountability-for-tech-and-anything-tech-touches/
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Steve Vladeck
7 months ago
Inject the second paragraph of this footnote directly into my veins. (And then send it to the nine firms that have bent the knee.)
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Evan Greer
7 months ago
Time for another musical digital security PSA! Here’s “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” but it’s about breaking up with Google 💔
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EPIC
7 months ago
On 4/24, EPIC Executive Director
@alanindc.bsky.social
and Deputy Director
@caitrionafitz.bsky.social
will speak at “The United States of Surveillance Capitalism vs. The Rule of Law” hosted by the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights.
tinyurl.com/asbfz4s7
Note: This event is only open to HUID holders.
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The United States of Surveillance Capitalism vs. The Rule of Law
Join Shoshana Zuboff (moderator), Alan Butler, Rohit Chopra, Caitriona Fitzgerald, and Jonathan Kantor as they look at the current high-stakes clash between the competing institutional orders of surve...
https://tinyurl.com/asbfz4s7
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Thanks to
@bostonglobe.com
for printing my letter pointing out that state privacy laws are only as good as their consumer protections.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/20/o...
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Data privacy laws are only as good as their consumer protections - The Boston Globe
The biggest weakness in these laws is that they do not require companies to take proactive steps and instead put the onus on consumers to correct or delete their data — rights that very few consumers ...
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/20/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-consumer-data-privacy-laws/
7 months ago
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Well, well, well, the CT AG released a new report on the CT Data Privacy Act and look what it says about data minimization! Full report:
portal.ct.gov/-/media/ag/p...
7 months ago
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The leaders of the House Energy & Commerce Committee wrote to
#23andme
saying that since there is no federal comprehensive data privacy law, they have "great concern" about the safety of Americans' most sensitive personal info. Not at all frustrating.
energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
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Chairmen Guthrie, Bilirakis, and Palmer Launch Investigation into 23andMe and its Handling of Americans’ Sensitive Medical and Genetic Information
The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...
https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairmen-guthrie-bilirakis-and-palmer-launch-investigation-into-23and-me-and-its-handling-of-americans-sensitive-medical-and-genetic-information
7 months ago
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Elizabeth Warren
7 months ago
President Trump just fired almost the entire staff of the CFPB, who protect you from getting scammed by Wall Street. This is another assault on consumers and our democracy by Trump's lawless Administration. We will fight back with everything we've got.
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Thank you
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
: "Privacy is power. [...] There is a beautiful internet of the future, free from corporate capture and data tracking. We can build it. It is going to take a movement." I'm fired up for the fight ahead.
www.ted.com/talks/carole...
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This is what a digital coup looks like
“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “bro...
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like
8 months ago
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Excited to see that Sunday's
@bostonglobe.com
editorial urges MA to adopt a strong comprehensive privacy law! Let's do this!
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/13/o...
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23andMe bankruptcy highlights need for data protection law - The Boston Globe
Consumers should be allowed to control how their private info is used.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/13/opinion/23andme-bankruptcy-data-privacy-massachusetts/
8 months ago
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"Of course, this raises a bigger question: Why should anyone be able to buy the genetic data of millions of Americans in a bankruptcy proceeding? The answer is simple: Lawmakers allow them to."
www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/28/1...
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How a bankruptcy judge can stop a genetic privacy disaster
Any new owner of 23AndMe’s data will want to find ways to make money from it. Lawmakers have a big opportunity to help keep it safe
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/28/1113911/how-a-bankruptcy-judge-can-stop-a-genetic-privacy-disaster/
8 months ago
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EPIC
8 months ago
EPIC’s
@caitrionafitz.bsky.social
will testify before a MA Legislature Joint Committee today in support of the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act and the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act. Watch EPIC’s testimony this afternoon:
malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...
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Hearing Details - Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity
https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/5114
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Know who sends a great monthly newsletter and will never sell your e-mail address?
@epic.org
! Signup for the EPIC Alert here:
epic.org/alert/
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EPIC Alert
https://epic.org/alert/
8 months ago
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EPIC
8 months ago
EPIC &
@consumerreports.org
are pleased to re-release the State Data Privacy Act with lots of new endorsements! Now endorsed by: Accountable Tech | CDT | Common Sense Media | CFA | Issue One | PIRG | Public Knowledge | Young People's Alliance Learn more:
epic.org/state-data-privacy-act
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Yell In a War
8 months ago
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
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8 months ago
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Elizabeth Warren
8 months ago
Terry was scammed out of most of his savings and was supposed to get his money back—until Donald Trump and Elon Musk gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Part one:
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Alvaro M. Bedoya
8 months ago
The president is trying to illegally fire me. Who does this help? Does it help you? Or does it help the billionaires over the president’s shoulder at the inauguration?
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Trump has illegally fired FTC Commissioners Slaughter and Bedoya, two incredible public servants who work tirelessly for American consumers.
8 months ago
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Josh Gerstein
9 months ago
JUST IN: Judge rules DOGE is likely subject to
#FOIA
requests. Judge Christopher Cooper, Obama appointee: 'USDS’s actions to date demonstrate its substantial authority over vast swathes of the federal government' Doc:
ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2025cv0511-18
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Kyle Cheney
9 months ago
BREAKING: A federal judge has just blocked the Department of Education and OPM from sharing sensitive data with DOGE.
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EPIC
9 months ago
🚨 UPDATE 🚨: EPIC’s
@johndavisson.bsky.social
argued in federal court today for a temporary order blocking the DOGE-directed disclosure and misuse of sensitive personal data held by OPM and Treasury. A decision is expected later today.
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California Privacy Protection Agency
10 months ago
@asmlowenthal.bsky.social
has introduced AB 566, sponsored by the CPPA. It requires browsers and mobile operating systems to give users the tools to opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal info in one step with opt-out preference signals. Read more:
cppa.ca.gov/announcement...
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Democracy Forward
10 months ago
We worked with the privacy group
@epic.org
to file suit against the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) for the unlawful seizure of personnel records and payment system data—constituting the largest data breach in American history. 1/2
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So, so proud of EPIC and all my incredible colleagues.
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10 months ago
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dell cameron
10 months ago
NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." |
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Christian Petersen
10 months ago
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Elez was one of two of Musk's people given access our nation's Treasury system in an agreement filed in court last night.
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10 months ago
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VT Rep.
@mepriestley.bsky.social
and I argue in
@vtdigger.bsky.social
that policymakers can’t tackle cost of living issues for their constituents without addressing the data privacy crisis. Data abuse is driving up the cost of insurance, groceries, rent, and more.
vtdigger.org/2025/02/04/r...
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Opinion — Rep. Monique Priestley and Caitriona Fitzgerald: Why data privacy is the key to unlocking affordability
We need to demand transparency, accountability and, ultimately, control over our data.
https://vtdigger.org/2025/02/04/rep-monique-priestley-and-caitriona-fitzgerald-why-data-privacy-is-the-key-to-unlocking-affordability/
10 months ago
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More of this please, Democratic members of Congress.
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10 months ago
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A bill banning the sale of precise geolocation data just passed the Virginia Senate 35-5! On to the House!
#privacy
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https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1023
10 months ago
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EPIC
10 months ago
"The national conversation has rightly focused on affordability. But these conversations are incomplete without addressing one of the root causes: the unchecked collection, use and sale of our personal data"
@caitrionafitz.bsky.social
&
@mepriestley.bsky.social
's op-ed:
vtdigger.org/2025/02/04/r...
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Opinion — Rep. Monique Priestley and Caitriona Fitzgerald: Why data privacy is the key to unlocking affordability
We need to demand transparency, accountability and, ultimately, control over our data.
https://vtdigger.org/2025/02/04/rep-monique-priestley-and-caitriona-fitzgerald-why-data-privacy-is-the-key-to-unlocking-affordability/
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CDC websites about food allergies, including how to manage food allergies in schools, have been taken down. They are playing games with kids lives.
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https://www.cdc.gov/school-health-conditions/media/pdfs/20_316712-A_FA_guide_508tag.pdf
10 months ago
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Charlotte Clymer
10 months ago
"We know you’re out of power. We understand you’re in the minority. We hear that, loud and clear. What we’re not hearing is your anger. We’re not hearing your outrage. We’re wondering whether or not you actually hear us."
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Comms Advice for Democratic Lawmakers
You didn't ask, but I'm offering it anyway.
https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/comms-advice-for-democratic-lawmakers
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EPIC
10 months ago
Nearly 1/2 of states that passed consumer privacy laws get a failing grade for protecting consumers’ data, according to The State of Privacy, an updated scorecard from EPIC & U.S. PIRG Education Fund. See your state’s report card:
epic.org/state-of-privacy-2025
spoiler alert: no state earned an A!
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Exciting
#privacy
news out of the MA State House this week! Numerous legislators introduced strong privacy bills, including some based on model bills EPIC has released.
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Massachusetts Legislators Introduce Strong Comprehensive Privacy Bills
https://epic.org/massachusetts-legislators-introduce-strong-comprehensive-privacy-bills/
10 months ago
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EPIC
10 months ago
🚨 EPIC and Enforce (
@iccl.bsky.social
) urged the FTC to investigate Google’s Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data in the first ever complaint under PADFAA, the new national security data law. 🧵 Read the complaint here:
epic.org/wp-content/u...
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Couldn't have said it better than my colleague
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👇 Imagine looking at the disaster that is X and thinking "yeah, we should emulate that." Big Tech platforms and the people who lead them are destroying our country.
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11 months ago
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Tech Policy Press
11 months ago
What’s next in US state tech policy in 2025? With new legislative sessions getting underway, Future of Privacy Forum's Keir Lamont, Electronic Privacy Information Center's Caitriona Fitzgerald, & NYU's Scott Babwah Brennen discuss state agendas on AI regulation, privacy, child online safety & more:
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What to Watch on US State Tech Policy in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
A conversation with FPF's Keir Lamont, EPIC's Caitriona Fitzgerald, and NYU's Scott Babwah Brennen.
https://www.techpolicy.press/what-to-watch-on-us-state-tech-policy-in-2025/
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Megan Iorio
11 months ago
California's regulation of addictive feeds will go into effect tomorrow, thanks to Judge Davila's decision denying in part NetChoice's request to enjoin SB 976. The restrictions on notifications & the compelled disclosure provisions were put on hold. More at link & below.
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Judge Allows California Regulation of Addictive Feeds to Go Into Effect
https://epic.org/judge-allows-california-regulation-of-addictive-feeds-to-go-into-effect/
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EPIC
11 months ago
We have an exciting opportunity for you to have a huge impact on EPIC’s work to defend privacy, human rights, and democracy – generous donors have stepped up to TRIPLE your end-of-year gift! That means that if you give $100, you are generating $300 of much-needed support for EPIC! ➡️
epic.org/donate
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