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Justin Sherman
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Data Broker Registries in Bills: the ADPPA and the DELETE Act
Tennessee just enacted the United States’ eighth comprehensive state privacy law. Just days before that, Indiana’s governor signed a comprehensive privacy bill, which enters into...
The FTC, Fertility App Premom, and Sharing Consumer Health Data
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) just charged that Premom, the fertility tracking app, shared hundreds of thousands of users’ information, unencrypted, with third parties. These...
Two New Bills on TikTok and Beyond: The DATA Act and RESTRICT Act
According to several media reports, the Biden administration has demanded that ByteDance sell TikTok to a U.S. owner or have TikTok face a complete ban...
GoodRx, Health Data Brokerage, and the Limits of HIPAA
On Feb. 1, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced an enforcement action against prescription drug provider and telehealth company GoodRx, for “failing to notify consumers...
Global Technology Products, U.S. Security Policy, and Spectrums of Risk
While TikTok is at the center of current media coverage of U.S.-China tech security policy, including its potential deal with the Committee on Foreign Investment...
Cybersecurity Under the Ocean: Submarine Cables and US National Security
Most internet users’ online experience is wireless, but in reality, hundreds of submarine cables, laid across the ocean floor around the world, are what carry...
New Bill Proposes Banning TikTok in the U.S.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which screens foreign investments in the U.S. for national security risks, is by multiple accounts...
Examining State Bills on Data Brokers
Data brokers’ unregulated buying and selling of Americans’ data on the open market continues to make headlines. Vice reported in May, for example, that data...
The Open Data Market and Risks to National Security
As 2021 came to a close, the Washington Post published an investigation showing that the Chinese government is heavily monitoring the internet abroad to collect...
Why the FCC Expelled a Chinese Telecom for National Security Risks
After months of investigating Chinese state-owned telecommunications companies for national security risks, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Oct. 26 issued an order on one,...
Data Brokers Are Advertising Data on U.S. Military Personnel
Data brokers constitute a large yet secretive industry of companies buying, aggregating, selling, licensing and otherwise sharing consumer data. They might collect data directly on...
The U.S. Is Continuing Its Campaign Against Huawei
Huawei has not dominated recent headlines nearly as much as it did under the Trump White House. Yet that does not mean the U.S. campaign...