🚨 🚨 🚨 THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE IS VOTING ON DATA PRIVACY TODAY!!! Call your Reps and tell them to support the ACLU-backed amendments that make H. 4746 stronger, and OPPOSE amendment 18 that makes it weaker. Reskeet to get this in front of as many massholes as possible!!! FFTF.link/madataprivacy

If industry is tripping over themselves to compliment your #privacy bill, you can be pretty sure it’s an industry burden reduction bill, not a consumer protection bill. #SecureDataAct

I was recently on the Data Diva podcast, discussing lots of #privacy topics including the SECURE Data Act, which is up for a hearing in House Energy & Commerce this morning. Spoiler alert: I don't like it. www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com/podcast/e291...

🚨Tomorrow at 10:15 a.m., EPIC Deputy Director and Policy Director @caitrionafitz.bsky.social will testify before a subcommittee of House Energy and Commerce about the recently introduced SECURE Data Act, which EPIC strenuously opposes.

New podcast alert -- today, I joined the Data Diva podcast to discuss lots of #privacy issues, including legislation, age verification, competition, and a bit on my own origin story. Link below! www.debbiereynoldsconsulting.com/podcast/e291...

I have SO much anecdotal evidence to back Jake as well

useful to revisit this CDT blog post from August -- #ArtificialIntelligence companies are taking on more risk and disclosing less info, to the detriment of people and society. Voluintary frameworks like NIST AI RMF don't do what we want them to. #AI

Many interesting tidbits here, but this quote re ease of de-anonymization using #AI: “I wanted to show that it is feasible to use the current, off-the-shelf AI chatbots to conduct ... [a] reidentification attack,” Dr Tianshi Li, of Northeastern University, said. www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...

Rewatching 30 Rock and I think this is still possibly one of the best constructed jokes in anything, ever.

An inspired choice. Rohit is brilliant and relentless. Corporate predators beware.

The SECURE Act is not a serious piece of privacy legislation. To take one example, this is not real data minimization: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

<3 a vermonter who sings about vermont!

Powerful statement from @accessnow.org in response to the #RightsCon cancelation. I'm very proud of them for speaking truth to power. www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme... @rightscon.org

they're only going to get worse with ... chatbots, that can create backronyms until the end of time.

I ran this piece in Tech Policy Press today, explaining just how weak the House E&C Republican #privacy bill is. It's a partisan bill, so it's not entirely surprising, but this bill is worse than nothing. www.techpolicy.press/congresss-ne...

I ran this piece in Tech Policy Press today, explaining just how weak the House E&C Republican #privacy bill is. It's a partisan bill, so it's not entirely surprising, but this bill is worse than nothing. www.techpolicy.press/congresss-ne...

Privacy advocates are alarmed by a new data privacy bill introduced Wednesday by House Republicans. It includes several exemptions for what data is protected and is therefore toothless, they say. It also preempts at least 20 state laws, many of which are tougher therecord.media/house-republ...

The SECURE Data Act is not a serious effort at tackling the urgent privacy crisis facing this country. It is weaker than many existing state laws (the very state laws that it would wipe off the books with its broad preemption provision). Some examples:

Finally, the House E&C R comprehensive #privacy bill is out. It's basically KY with some provisions made worse and some provisions removed (like impact assessments). We hope the bill improves with time, but this is a major step back from ADPPA and APRA.

#Privacy matters! It makes you money. "Brands with strong privacy practices saw 12.31% higher purchase intent than brands with weak practices. The effect was even greater (255%) for brands that customers already liked." hbr.org/2026/05/data...

CDT recently sent a letter to the California Senate Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection asking them to add #privacy and #security protections to the BASED Act, given the potential harms that could occur without such protections. Letter is below. cdt.org/insights/cdt...

Here's Meta inventing new data to collect to satisfy its AI machine. The significant loss of privacy and the intrusiveness of the data they're collecting is galling.

Kick.com requires a login for 1080p viewing? Obnoxious.

#FTCOversight hearing over, only 1 hour 45 minutes and not many fireworks (except Lujan and probably Markey).

Ferguson: FTC is not and should not be a general #privacy enforcer. Unfair/deceptive is from 1935, doesn't address privacy harms of today. Congress should pass a law. I wish Congress could've done that in 2022 or 2024 when they had the chance! #FTCOversight

#FTCOversight live stream went down during Markey's questioning on gender-affirming care (and whatever else he may be asking about).

Commissioner Meador unable to identify gaps in protecting kids from AI/online harms. Says all they do is enforce laws given to them. Strange framing, honestly. #FTCOversight

Ferguson: "we are the first FTC to bring a case under the BOTS Act." There have only been two FTC's before now, Trump I and Biden. So, it's not that big of a boast. #FTCOversight

Nothing motivates like an oversight hearing, apparently. Ferguson has referenced many actions his FTC has taken in the past week. #FTCOversight

Ferguson seems to think that California has set the #privacy laws of the nation? Not a single state has followed their approach. #FTCOversight

Ferguson: if a commission is running amok, having bipartisan commissioners is good. But I'M not running amok! So don't worry. Yikes. #FTCOversight

Ferguson saying FTC is good at "core competency" (fraud, unfairness) -- so what do you think of the TAKE IT DOWN Act being assigned to FTC? #FTCOversight

"We've returned more money to consumers in a year than the Khan FTC did in 4" -- pretty sure all those cases *started* under Khan or before, but Ferguson will take credit for anything. #FTCOversight

Sen Cantwell says the FTC has gone from watch dog to lap dog. Nice. #FTCOversight

Oh the irony of Senator Cruz decrying Chair Khan's FTC as the speech police. #FTCOversight

#Privacy matters! It makes you money. "Brands with strong privacy practices saw 12.31% higher purchase intent than brands with weak practices. The effect was even greater (255%) for brands that customers already liked." hbr.org/2026/05/data...

well this is tragic -- my favorite shoe company (Allbirds) sold its IP and is rebranding to an AI compute company. RIP. www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...

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This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

OkCupid was caught red-handed sharing data contrary to its #privacy policy, and then lied about it to the FTC? Sheesh. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

gambling is a scourge H/T @hartzog.bsky.social

this is your reminder to double-check that Apple Maps business locations are correct. I was about to go an hour out to VA on the metro to go to a store location I found on Apple Maps that turns out didn't exist at all! (No disrespect to Apple Maps, it's a good app! But errors exist.)

this is the _real_ pentagon. much taller than DC's and is actually the tallest pentagonal building in the world! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimo...

If House E&C's goal is to protect #kids online, why do their bills (1) preempt stronger state laws; (2) lack a private right of action for kids/parents to enforce their rights; (3) incent #AgeVerification, which will use #FacialRecognition to determine age; (4) have weak #DataMinimization? #Privacy

If you cite "Anxious Generation" supportively, you should listen to the <If Books Could Kill> podcast about the book, on why it's not very rigorous or persuasive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQBM...

this is an unbelievable air traffic pattern

Time to rethink whether #DeIdentification #Anonymization provides any #privacy protection at all. Of _course_ #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels are fantastic at re-identifying users. It is the exact type of task they excel at--finding correlations in data arstechnica.com/security/202...

must. make. AI. overlord. happy. please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please thank you

FTC hosting a workshop this Thursday on consumer injuries and benefits from the "data-driven economy" with many great academics speaking! Looking forward to the convo. www.ftc.gov/news-events/... #privacy #ArtificialIntelligence

The Verge saying the US desperately needs a #privacy law. I agree. www.theverge.com/column/88251...