Outline of remarks by Beth Givens, Director
U.S. Dept. of Treasury
Washington, D.C.
National Summit on…
Testimony of Edmund Mierzwinski, Consumer Program Director, U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG)…
By Beth Givens
EFF Pioneer Award
Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference
San Francisco CA
I…
Presentation by Beth Givens, Director
NACUA 41st Annual Conference
National Association of College and…
A CALPIRG/Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Report
By Janine Benner, CALPIRG; Beth Givens, Privacy Rights…
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was the first comprehensive consumer privacy law in the United States, in effect since 2020 and broadened in 2023 by the California Privacy Rights Act. It lets Californians see, correct, and delete the personal information businesses collect about them and opt out of its sale or sharing, and it remains the only state law backed by a dedicated regulator, the California Privacy Protection Agency.
ChoicePoint, Bank of America Scandals Underscore Weakness of Current Laws
The recent security…
In the first half of 2026, state agencies and HHS published 5,429 data breach notification filings describing 1,969 breach events and affecting at least 343 million people. A single platform breach at Instructure (Canvas) accounts for nearly 80 percent of that total, and the share of breaches whose cause cannot be determined from the public record has risen to one in three.