The giant company controlled by Mark Zuckerberg is being sued by most of the United States’ state governments for violating federal and state laws in the course of its business.
Tag: Privacy
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Minnesota’s Peggy Flanagan keynotes Saturday breakfast at 2023 Oregon Summit
Read NPI’s recap of the Saturday morning plenary of the 2023 Oregon Summit, with Labor Commissioner Christina Stephenson, Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum, and Treasurer Tobias Read.
Posted inLegislative Advocacy
VICTORY! My Health, My Data Act heads to Governor Inslee after House concurrence vote
By a vote of 57–40, the House voted to concur in the Senate amendments to House Bill 1155, prime sponsored by Representative Vandana Slatter (D‑48th District: Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Medina, the Points communities).
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Senate sends My Health, My Data Act back to WA House with strong private right of action
By a vote of 27–21, the Senate voted to pass an amended version of House Bill 1155, prime sponsored by Representative Vandana Slatter (D‑48th District: Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Medina, the Points communities) that has the support of Slatter, Senate prime sponsor Manka Dhingra (D‑45th District: Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish, Duvall), Ferguson, and advocates like NPI.
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More than three-fourths of Washington voters support the proposed My Health, My Data Act
76% of 874 voters interviewed from March 7th-8th, 2023 by Public Policy Polling for the Northwest Progressive Institute said they were supportive of blocking health tracking apps and advertisers from collecting and selling Washingtonians’ health data without their consent, barring location-specific targeting of people who visit reproductive and gender affirming healthcare facilities, and requiring companies to maintain and publish a privacy policy for people’s health data.
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The dishonesty of the Dobbs majority
“More than a gutting of reproductive rights and women’s rights, Dobbs is a breach of trust,” attorney Cat Williams writes in this guest post for NPI’s Cascadia Advocate.
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Alito court overturns Roe v. Wade, allowing states to criminalize reproductive rights
In an extreme decision, the United States Supreme Court has gutted almost fifty years of precedent and removed recognition of an important right supported by a majority of Americans.
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Reagan Dunn votes against reproductive rights as Democrats vow to make abortion care an issue in the 2022 midterms
If you missed the movie “Twister,” watch what Dunn, who is challenging Representative Kim Schrier, says and does on reproductive rights. His mother, the late United States Representative Jennifer Dunn, who retired in 2004, was a Reagan Republican, but pro-choice.
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Joe Manchin joins Republicans to defeat Women’s Health Protection Act in U.S. Senate
The bill, known as the Women’s Health Protection Act, had been expected to get filibustered. Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer staged the vote anyway to put Republicans on record as opposed to reproductive rights
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IRS scraps policy requiring taxpayer consent to facial recognition for online account access
“The Treasury Department has made the smart decision to direct the IRS to transition away from using the controversial ID.me verification service, as I requested earlier today” Oregon’s U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said.
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Divided Supreme Court lets Texas’ horrifying anti-reproductive rights law stand… again
Five extreme right wing justices, including Trump’s three appointees, have sanctioned a new Texas law that sets up a bounty system to punish anyone who tries to exercise reproductive rights for themselves or others.
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Tim Eyman says he’s worried about facial recognition. So why won’t he wear a mask?
Throwing on a face covering can help frustrate the very technology that Tim Eyman says is a danger to our personal liberty. But Eyman has likened mask wearing to tyranny.
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Zoom Video Conferencing is a privacy and security nightmare. Maybe soon, it won’t be.
Electronic meeting technology provider Zoom is coming under harsh and much needed scrutiny regarding its privacy and security practices.
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NPI’s Gael Tarleton kicks off campaign to become Washington’s next Secretary of State
Incumbent Republican Kim Wyman will have a tough, credible Democratic challenger in 2020.