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The Commerce Committee is about to host a consumer privacy hearing, but consumer privacy groups aren’t invited.
Why not?

Because this hearing may be the launch pad for a strategy of adopting weak federal laws that eviscerate strong state laws. <Thread>
eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
Remember when Equifax was forced to tell us that they compromised the data of 145.5 million Americans?

That was a California law that could be preempted by a weaker federal law. eff.org/deeplinks/2017…
Remember when Congress repealed our broadband privacy rights?

People in Minnesota and Nevada still had state laws protecting their browser history. eff.org/deeplinks/2017…
It was Illinois’ biometric privacy law which landed Facebook in a class action lawsuit for allegedly scanning facial data without permission. digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewconten…
California recently passed consumer privacy legislation that gives users the right to know what personal information a business has about them and to opt-out of sale of personal information.

All these state laws could be pre-empted by weaker federal law. eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
Some of the companies invited have spent heavily to oppose consumer privacy legislation, and many have never supported consumer privacy laws.

This hearing is a chance for them to encourage Congress to adopt the weakest privacy protections possible.
nytimes.com/2018/08/26/tec…
A consumer privacy hearing that includes only big tech and telecom would yield little information to Congress. The industry's ask is straight forward: block strong state laws with weak federal laws.
EFF has had a long and continuous battle with some of the testifying companies in California, such as Google and AT&T, regarding your right to data privacy, and we’re not going to give up now. eff.org/deeplinks/2017…
Since we can’t be there to say this ourselves, we’ll say it here: EFF will oppose any federal legislation that weakens today’s hard-fought privacy protections or destroys the states’ ability to protect their citizens’ personal information. eff.org/deeplinks/2018…
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Once again, Facebook has put its profits over our privacy. nytimes.com/2018/12/18/tec…
Facebook should not be sharing users' private data with its business partners without users' knowledge and freely-given, specific, unambiguous consent.
This latest revelation underscores the need to strengthen data privacy laws in California and elsewhere to ensure users can hold companies accountable, and to resist efforts in Congress to preempt state data privacy protections.
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The @SFChronicle's Editorial Board agrees: California's blanket collection and retention of genetic profiles from people arrested but never convicted of any crime is enormously overbroad sfchronicle.com/opinion/editor…
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Shipping & Transit filed 107 patent lawsuits, earning more than $700,000 in one year—a campaign a federal judge called "predatory." Today it's bankrupt. wsj.com/articles/pushb…
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De retour du Portugais :). J'ai un peu moins d'une heure avant mon cours pur vous parler de mon post-doc. C'est tipar !
En fait, j'ai toujours été militant, et une de mes préoccupations, c'est la défense du droit à la vie privée. Et puis un jour pendant ma thèse, je suis tombé sur le site de l'équipe @PrivaticsInria… Du coup j'avais vachement envie de bosser avec elleux !
De l'extérieur, ça semble vraiment être une équipe de gens qui se soucient de la #privacy, je veux dire que c'est pas juste un application de leur sujet technique de recherche, c'est vraiment ce qui les motives, socialement. (Spoiler : de l'intérieur aussi !).
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