Online privacy bill needs to be fortified with FIPs and other protections
Consumer and privacy advocates responded to calls for comments on a draft online privacy bill proposed by Representatives Rick Boucher and Cliff Stearns. Among other items, the letter asks for an incorporation of Fair Information Practices (FIPs) and no federal pre-emption of stronger state privacy laws.

Full body scanner program violates privacy and doesn't work
Privacy coalition members sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security's Secretary Janet Napolitano and Chief Privacy Officer Mary Ellen Callahan asking that the full body scanner programs now being deployed at airports in the United States are intrusive and ineffective.

Give the FTC the tools it needs to protect consumers
In coalition with other organizations Consumer Action asked the Senate to keep provisions in a bill under consideration that would strengthen the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Restore funding Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
A coalition of groups signed onto to ask for a return to funding for the Office of Technological Assessment, an independent testing agency used to help Congress make decisions on topics ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to acid rain.

Big Retail is watching: Digital signage networks are everywhere
Leading consumer organizations, including Consumer Action, endorsed a set of principles regarding digital signage, or new forms of technology that track and monitor consumers in retail environments, recording information such as behavior and personal characteristics.

Privacy and Fair Information Practices should guide FCC
Consumer Action and other consumer advocates sent comments to the Federal Communications Commission describing the collection and use of personal data by companies, problems with industry self-regulatory models, and principles and standards that should serve as the foundation of consumer privacy protection.

Strengthen privacy in FCC's national broadband plan
Consumer Action joined the Center for Democracy and Technology and others in asking the Federal Communications Commission to consider privacy concerns in its National Broadband Plan, and to endorse Fair Information Practices in addressing them.

Data collection and tracking via student loans is open-ended and overbroad
Consumer Action signed onto a letter to the Senate that addresses privacy concerns about a recent student loan bill. The bill includes federal funding for state student tracking systems.

Report cards grade privacy of online personal health records
Consumer Action's coalition partner, Patient Privacy Rights, has launched a report card that evaluates the privacy options in five popular personal health records systems.

DHS privacy report falls short
Consumer Action signed on to a letter detailing specifically how the Department of Homeland Security's Chief Privacy Officer has failed to safeguard the privacy of Americans.

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