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The Ghost Students Bill Deserves a Closer Look
"Fraud in the FAFSA system is a real problem worth solving. But a one-size-fits-all federal mandate that sidelines state institutions isn't necessarily the answer."
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CASE Op-Ed in @thehill: The Data Brokers Congress Forgot to Regulate
"Massive data aggregators don’t just sell your personal information, they sell conclusions about you, gleaned from your data." @CASE_forAmerica
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You Need a Government Account to Access Your Benefits. Here's Who Else Gets Your Data.
"When you verify your identity through that front door, your information goes further than the government agency you are trying to reach."
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The Apps on Your Phone Just Became a National Security Threat
"The infrastructure was built for advertising. It turns out it works for targeting people, too."
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Congress just spent hours debating HR8413 the SECURE Data Act, access rights, consent, preemption. Somehow data aggregators quietly vacuuming up everything about you barely came up. They live in a regulatory gray zone nobody wants to touch, and that's exactly how they like it.
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Consumer Opt-Out Mechanisms are Designed to Fail
"Google, Meta, and OpenAI were each cited for failing to provide clear, accessible links to opt-out mechanisms from their homepages or privacy policies."
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$20.9 Billion in Losses: The Cost of Letting Data Brokers Police Themselves
"...multiple companies were using technical code to high opt-out tools from search engines making it more difficult for consumers to have agency over their own data."
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The Kochava Settlement Shows Why We Need a National Privacy Standard
"A comprehensive national standard would give consumers rights from day one and give the FTC a clearer, more proactive mandate."
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The FTC is banning data broker Kochava from selling sensitive location data after it tracked movements of millions of people, including visits to health clinics and places of worship, without their knowledge or consent. Time to rein in data brokers.
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You Own Your Data. A New Bill Wants to Make That Official.
"The You Own the Data Act...would require companies to limit data collection to only what is genuinely necessary to deliver a service someone actually asked for."
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GM Sold Your Location Data for Years. California Just Made Them Pay.
"Your car knows where you drop your kids off, when you go to the doctor, and what time you leave for work. That information has real value, and companies have been quietly monetizing it."
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Data Breaches Are Accelerating. AI Is Making the Problem Worse.
"Researchers have documented sharp increases in AI-powered phishing campaigns and credential attacks over the past few years."
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The Government Is Building a Real-Time Surveillance Dragnet. Here Is How It Works.
"For years, federal agencies have sidestepped warrant requirements by purchasing data that private companies collected first."
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CDP Op-Ed in @InsightsIssues: Our Data Is For Sale To An Unexpected Buyer
"What seems to be a clear violation of the 4th Amendment is a Washington problem, one that has been festering for years across administrations on both sides of the aisle."
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"We know you live right here". DHS just spent a record $425 million on a domestic dragnet tracking 300M people (citizens included).
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Don't forget: LexisNexis, the same company selling your data to this tracking machine, is what powers Login.gov.
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The "front door" to your Social Security and federal benefits is their surveillance back door. This is the shadow digital economy in action. Pull back the veil.
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