The State of Privacy: How State “Privacy” Laws Fail to Protect Privacy and What They Can do Better

In today’s world, our lives are increasingly lived online. Nearly everything we do is mediated through personal devices, turning every click, search, and purchase we make on our favorite apps and sites into data points that are collected by companies on the other side of our screens.

These companies — many of whom you’ve never heard of and don’t know you’re interacting with —have turned your information into a lucrative business model, threatening your data security and privacy along the way.