Consumer advocates and the data-hungry technology industry are drawing early battle lines in advance of an expected fight this year over what kind of federal privacy law the U.S. should have. On Thursday, more than a dozen privacy organizations unveiled a plan that would create a new federal data-protection agency focused on regulating the way…
State and federal lawmakers have pushed for privacy laws after myriad online breaches and scandals. Now, saying the United States faces a “crisis,” advocacy groups are going a step further and calling for a new data protection agency. “The U.S. needs a federal agency focused on privacy protection, compliance with data protection obligations, and emerging…
Major U.S. cities are becoming hotbeds for privacy enforcement. Los Angeles’ recent lawsuit against IBM Corp. and its Weather Channel app for allegedly mining users’ location data without their consent highlights a growing list of cities that have sued some of the biggest tech companies in the nation for violating municipal and state privacy laws.…