Category Archives: consumer goods

New Coalition. Against Card Skimming.

State: Alabama

What entity organized the coalition against card skimming? Alabama’s Attorney General

The new coalition against card skimming: Alabama Focus Group on Skimming

What entities comprise the coalition?

  • U.S. Secret Service
  • Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries
  • Alabama Department of Transportation
  • Alabama Fusion Center
  • Alabama Law Enforcement Agency
  • Alabama Petroleum Equipment Contractors Association
  • Petroleum & Convenience Marketers of Alabama
  • Alabama Attorney…

Lege Trend. 8 States. Net neutrality bills.

The states looking to add net nuetrality requirements: North Carolina, Illinois, California, New York, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Rhode Island and Washington

4 policy goals of net nuetrality:

  •  A level playing field for all online services that prohibits internet providers to block or slow down sites or online services
  •  Ensure consumers find the content of the choice
  • Maintain broad access to online services and information
  • Protect businesses, large and small, from having to pay fees to reach…

Hawkeye Attorney General Reviewing State Cyber Security Policies and Laws as Part of Equifax Response.

The Iowa Attorney General is reviewing the state’s cyber security protocols to do 3 things:

  • identify shortfalls in current legal requirements for those who store personal information
  • look to enhance consumer protections
  • seek to lessen the burden on consumers who’ve been victimized by data breaches
    • Such as “scrutinizing the fees that credit reporting agencies are allowed to charge Iowans for freezing and unfreezing credit reports — particularly data breach victims,”

Des Moines…

This Data Gathering Household Machine is Begging & Pleading for Legislation.

Your Roomba is mapping your house and collecting data. Let’s repeat, your Roomba is colelcting data about how to get around your house and what is in your house. 

Better yet, the company hasn’t asked you whether they can keep the data, store the data or sell the data. What retailer wouldn’t want to buy data that says you have no loveseat? or only 1 sad and lonely dining chair?

This type of private property data is screaming for legislation. Legislation about disclosure of the data, sale of…