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Critics Warn Covid-19 Digital 'Privacy' Bill Is Really 'Anti-Privacy' Bill in Disguise
Sara Collins, policy counsel at Public Knowledge, said the new proposal "gratuitously preempts the much stronger FCC privacy protections governing mobile carriers. These protections have been used to ensure data on mobile phones are not shared with third parties without the user's permission."
After For-Profit College Agrees to Forgive $141 Million in Student Debt, Sanders Says: 'Good. Now $1,685,456,413,335 More to Go'
Jon Queally, staff writer
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) hold a press conference to introduce college affordability legislation outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on June 24, 2019. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
University of Phoenix settlement with the FTC this week—in which the company admitted no actual wrongdoing—is chump change compared to Bernie's proposal to "cancel all student debt and tax Wall Street to fund tuition-free public college."
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Advocates Blast 'Paltry' $170 Million Penalty for Google's Violations of Child Privacy Rules
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A young girl uses a laptop
"The FTC let Google off the hook with a drop-in-the-bucket fine. Not a single...
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Public Citizen
Andrew Smith Must Recuse Himself From Revisions to FTC’s Online Children’s Privacy Protections
Open Markets Institute
Open Markets Commends State Attorneys General for Launching Bipartisan Antitrust Investigation Into Facebook
US PIRG
Google to Pay Disappointing $170 Million Fine Over YouTube’s Sale and Tracking of Ads Aimed at Children
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Advocates Who Filed the Privacy Complaint Against Google/YouTube Laud Improvements, But Say FTC Settlement Falls Far Short
Public Citizen
With FTC Settlement, Expect Facebook to Violate Privacy Again and Again
Open Markets Institute
Open Markets Denounces Ineffective $5 Billion FTC Settlement With Facebook, Calls on Congress to Investigate the FTC
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