EFF is one of dozens, if not hundreds, of organizations that work to protect privacy.
Millions of people read EFF's website each year, and tens of millions use the tools we've made, like Privacy Badger.
Privacy is one of EFF's biggest concerns, and as an organization we have grown by leaps and bounds over the last two decades because more and more people care.
Some people say that Americans have given up on privacy.
If you look at actual facts-not just EFF membership, but survey results and votes cast on ballot initiatives-Americans overwhelmingly support new privacy protections.
In general, the country has grown more concerned about how the government uses our data, and a large majority of people say that we need more data privacy protections.
People are angry because they care about privacy, not because privacy is dead. Some people also say that kids these days don't care about their privacy, but the ones that we've met think about privacy a lot.
At EFF, we'd like to see privacy and protection as the default until consumers opt-in.
CCPA doesn't allow individuals to sue if their data is mismanaged-only California's Attorney General and the California Privacy Protection Agency can do it.
The California Privacy Protection Agency now must create a deletion mechanism for data brokers that allows people to make their requests to every data broker with a single, verifiable consumer request.
The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, for example, passed back in 2008, protects people from nonconsensual use of their biometrics for face recognition.
We may not have comprehensive privacy laws yet in the US, but other parts of the world-like Europe-have more impactful, if imperfect, laws.
We can have a nationwide comprehensive consumer data privacy law, and once those laws are on the books, they can be improved.
Privacy laws aren't the only way to create privacy protections, as the now nearly-entirely encrypted web shows: another approach is to engineer in strong privacy protections from the start.
Password managers protect your passwords and your accounts; third-party cookie blockers like EFF's Privacy Badger stop third-party tracking.
We Are Winning The Privacy War, Not Losing It. Sometimes people respond to privacy dangers by comparing them to sci-fi dystopias.
We all recognize that there are different levels of privacy in different places, and that privacy protections aren't equally good or bad no matter where we go.
Privacy inequity is real; increasingly, money buys additional privacy protections.
We should not accept that some people will have privacy and others will not.
As the number of people demanding privacy increases, the safer we all are.
This Cyber News was published on www.eff.org. Publication date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 01:13:05 +0000