Consumer Reports and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) oppose Georgia S.B. 111, a comprehensive privacy bill. The bill seeks to provide to Georgia consumers the right to know the information companies have collected about them, the right to access, correct, and delete that information, as well as the right to stop the disclosure of certain information to third parties. However, in its current form it would do little to protect Georgia consumers’ personal information, or to rein in major tech companies like Google and Facebook.
S.B. 11 would require several strengthening amendments to provide the level of protection that Georgia consumers deserve, including:
- Include meaningful data minimization provisions, or at least require companies to honor browser privacy signals as opt outs;
- Remove the pseudonymous data exception;
- Amend non-discrimination provisions;
- Ensure targeted advertising is adequately covered;
- Remove authentication requirements for opt-outs;
- Strengthen enforcement; and
- Remove entity level carveouts.
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