by Saoirse Grace, 2024 Privacy Rights Fellow Much has been written about the legal, social, and practical reasons AB 3080 must be stopped. I agree—it must be. For those unfamiliar, AB 3080 is a bill in the California state legislature…
Category: Data Privacy
Why We Can’t Censor Our Way Out of Online Harms
by Tracy Rosenberg Online Harms Need A Structural Solution: Ham-Handed Censorship Won’t Fix It There is no doubt about it. Internet 2.0 made some people a lot of money. The quandary of the early 2000’s of how to monetize the…
The Saga of AB 1463 and Other Sacto Tales
The 2023 legislative season in CA’s state capital has come to a close. Oakland Privacy intervened on your behalf on over 65 bills (a world record), piping up in support, opposition or demanding changes. Our final batting average in sign/veto…
Time to Ditch Chrome
The Chrome Privacy campaign sought to intervene in Google’s reworking of advertising cookies to increase user privacy. Um….. that didn’t work. Google’s long-running “Privacy Sandbox” is more like a privacy tar pit. It does inhibit the activities of third party…
Federal Trade Commission Proposed Rulemaking On Data Privacy And Commercial Surveillance
On November 21st, the newly filled out Federal Trade Commission accepted written comments on an Announcement of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) that asked a sweeping set of questions about what to do about the commercial data economy in the United States.…
CA Privacy Advocates Comments To CA Privacy Protection Agency 11/21/22
A coalition of privacy advocates, including Oakland Privacy, Media Alliance, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, ACLU Action, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Consumer Federation submitted comments on the latest draft of CA Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) rulemaking. The rulemaking follows the Ca…
Don’t Write That Down: Reflections on Body Temperature and Ovulation Surveillance
by Ursula Curiousa When I was learning to read and write, my teacher gave me homework to devise my very first survey to deploy with three people. Question 1 for all of us in the class: “What is your name?”…
Privacy Lawsuit Against Oracle
3 privacy activists, including OP member Mike Katz-Lacabe, have filed a class action lawsuit against Oracle Corporation for ongoing privacy violations. The plaintiffs are represented by the Lief Cabrasar law firm, which has worked on major privacy litigation. The lawsuit,…
Join Our Call for Chrome Privacy Now!
Oakland Privacy, the Bay Area’s anti-surveillance coalition, has put up a new website at ChromePrivacy.org to call on Google to add a global opt-out signal to the world’s most used web browser, Chrome. Years into California’s effort to give people…
Berkeley Community Speaks Up (And Stops) High School Internet Monitoring Plan
by Sara Zimmerman Update: 3/31/2021 Berkeley High School parents were informed that the monitoring of what websites students visited has been put on indefinite hold. Parents will retain the ability to ban certain websites on school-issued devices. Students at Berkeley…