Saturday, July 04, 2026

A point!

https://pogowasright.org/letter-urging-the-committee-of-conference-to-retain-the-private-right-of-action-in-the-massachusetts-consumer-data-privacy-act/

Letter Urging the Committee of Conference to Retain the Private Right of Action in the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act

Privacy law scholar Neil Richards writes:

A privacy right that you can’t enforce isn’t really a right – and that’s how Big Tech likes it. Massachusetts is close to passing a meaningful privacy law with a private right of action. So Woodrow Hartzog and I, along with 16 other privacy and technology legal scholars (with fantastic help from my former student and Duke 2L Lea Despotis ), wrote a letter to the Massachusetts legislature in support of the private right of action, substantive data minimization rules, and bright-line prohibitions on dangerous data practices.

[Letter follows...]



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