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Washington state privacy legislation

My Health My Data goes to the Governor's desk: Washington state privacy update, April 20

Gov. Inslee is expected to sign the bill, probably next week.

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Washington state privacy legislation

My Health My Data in the home stretch: Washington privacy legislation update, April 17

Update: My Health My Data has passed the legislature!

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Washington state privacy legislation

My Health My Data heads to the Senate floor: Washington privacy legislation update, April 4

The Senate's likely to vote on the consumer helath data privacy bill as soon as tomorrow.

Nexus of Privacy News Roundup

Privacy News Roundup: February 22

As usual, there's a lot going on!

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Automated Decision Systems

Another try at regulating Automated Decision Systems in Washington state (UPDATED)

You can probably guess what happened

Nexus of Privacy News Roundup

Privacy News Roundup: February 13 mega-post

Data brokers selling Americans mental health data, legal theory, state and federal privacy legislation, and more!

A watered-down substitute advances: Washington privacy legislation update, February 6

Washington state privacy legislation

A watered-down substitute advances: Washington privacy legislation update, February 6

The new version of My Health My Data incorporates many of the "improvements" (haha) industry lobbyists suggested

Nexus of Privacy News Roundup

Privacy News Roundup: February 1

Privacy after Roe, an FTC enforcement action, a federal privacy legislation update ... and more!

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Washington state privacy legislation

The session's in high gear: Washington privacy legislation update, January 31

With only 105 days in Washington's legislative session, things are moving quickly

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#Privacy activism on Mastodon and in the fediverse

It's worth a try!

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Washington state privacy legislation

#Privacy activism in "the other Washington": #waleg #MyHealthMyData #PeoplesPrivacyAct and more

It might or might not work, but we'll learn a lot, so it's worth a try.

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Privacy News: January 26

State and federal privacy regulation, facial recognition, what's on tap for 2023 ... and more!

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Washington state privacy legislation

A very encouraging first step: My Health My Data's first hearing

Part two of Washington state privacy legislation 2023

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Privacy News: January 20

Websites selling abortion pills sharing data with Google, the My Health My Data Act, the "no fly" list accidentally exposed, a state privacy legislation bonanza ... and more!

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Privacy News: January 17

Algorithms of oppression (re)producing racism, pushing back on AI hype, a new approach to try to make GDPR's protections real, state privacy legislation ... and more!

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Privacy News: January 12

President Biden weighs in, facial recognition in Iran, medium on Mastodon ... and more!

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Washington state privacy legislation

A much more favorable environment, but a lot of complexity: Washington state privacy legislation 2023 (UPDATED)

There's good reason for optimism!

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Privacy News: January 9

Lots of surveillance stories, fines for Facebook, Google, and Apple, and much much more!

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Privacy News: January 3

Looking back at 2022, a good book list, another Black man mistakenly arrested because of facial recognition tecnnology ... and more!

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The Nexus of Privacy at the turn of the year

With some teasers about stories in the works ...

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Privacy News: December 26

Police using health data for surveillance, TikTok spying on journalists, state privacy legislation, and more!

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Does quoting really cause toxicity?

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Federal privacy legislation

That's a wrap (for now): federal privacy legislation update, December 23

It's official: at the end of the day, nothing passed

The American Data Privacy Protection Act won't protect pregnant people, Immigrant, BIPOC, Poor, LGBTQ2SIA and Disabled folks.

The omnibus drops - with no ADPPA or KOSA! Federal privacy legislation update, December 20

The $1.7 trillion, 4155-page "omnibus" appropriations bill was released at 1:30 am this morning – without any privacy legislation attached. With Congress rushing to leave DC before a huge snowstorm closes in, it looks like that's it for 2022. Privacy legislation is hard. Still, by the time we got