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2019 Fight Over Data Privacy Rights Heating Up Already

Tuesday, November 13, 2018
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program

Next year, a highly-anticipated privacy and data rights battle will occur in Congress. Powerful special interests from Google to Facebook are responding to the new European General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) by seeking to quash any similar effort to protect U.S. consumers while simultaneously seeking to preempt a new California privacy law before it takes effect in 2020. Will we continue as data collector products, not their customers, or will we gain control over our own financial DNA? The state PIRGs are in this one; guess which side we're on. Today we joined 34 leading groups in issuing shared Privacy Principles.

#EEDay2018 - States Can Lead

Friday, October 5, 2018
By | Abe Scarr
State Director

The cheapest, cleanest energy is the energy we don’t use in the first place. Whether you care about improving air quality, fending off the worst impacts of global warming, or simply saving money, energy efficiency and conservation are critical.

The Facebook Data Breach: What You Need to Know and What You Should Do

Sunday, September 30, 2018
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program

This guest post from Nathan Acks of the State PIRG Internet Security team offers background on the latest Facebook breach and what you can do.

Ten Years After Lehman, Lessons of Financial Collapse Ignored, Not Forgotten

Monday, September 17, 2018
By | Ed Mierzwinski
Senior Director, Federal Consumer Program

Ten years ago this weekend the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers marked the massive financial collapse of 2008. Millions of Americans lost homes, jobs and trillions of dollars in retirement savings. Today, the financial collapse hasn't been forgotten, it's being ignored by Congress and Wall Street.

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