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Privacy witnesses warn of harms to children, surveillance pricing and data-broker risks
Summary
Privacy advocates and a former FTC official told senators that unchecked data collection fuels harms to children, enables individualized price discrimination, and empowers data brokers, calling for strong data minimization, enforcement and protections for sensitive data.
Several witnesses told the Senate subcommittee that weak privacy protections are producing concrete harms, from youth mental-health risks to individualized pricing and dangerous data-broker practices.
Alan Butler, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, cited a long-standing FTC finding that "self regulation does not work, and we need legislation to ensure adequate protection for Americans online." Butler urged data minimization, heightened protections for sensitive data and strong enforcement, including private rights of action "with…
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