Privacy and Surveillance

H.4746 features critical protections against the abuse of personal data

New letter urges officials to stop sharing sensitive data with out-of-state agencies

The Massachusetts Senate today passed the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act (S.2608), which would provide strong, comprehensive protections for consumers and communities especially vulnerable to the abuse of sensitive personal data.

Today, technology has far outpaced privacy law. Data brokers and Big Tech are free to do almost anything they want with our personal information, including selling our cellphone location data on the open market. These practices endanger all of us, but especially vulnerable communities like immigrants, protesters, and people seeking and providing reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare. Lawmakers must pass the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act (H.4746) to give all Massachusetts residents robust privacy rights in the digital age.

With Flock Safety's license plate reader (LPR) technology, law enforcement agencies across the country can track Massachusetts drivers in real-time — without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. Flock's nationwide data sharing model puts our civil rights and civil liberties at risk.

Face surveillance gives the government unprecedented power to track our every move. We have a plan.

We can’t manage what we don’t measure.