NYT reporter Kashmir Hill took a deep dive into secret surveillance scores based on our petition to the FTC 👇 nytimes.com/2019/11/04/bus…

Sure, you monitor your credit score. But you probably don’t know your consumer score — or even the fact that you have one. Laura Antonini ⚖️ calls them “credit scores, but on steroids.” buff.ly/2pZY1mr

Amidst unprecedented pandemic-related surveillance of Americans that will lead to discriminatory algorithms and scoring in the future, the FTC tells tech companies to regulate themselves. We told the Commission to use its authority to protect consumers👇 representconsumers.org/wp-content/upl…

The FTC ducks on protecting consumers against algorithmic discrimination and scoring as #COVID19 ramps up digital surveillance of Americans. The agency suggests tech companies regulate themselves - we say #dosomething #privacy #AI #ProtectConsumers representconsumers.org/wp-content/upl…

Our Policy Director Laura Antonini ⚖️ on companies’ (failed) attempt to get temporary #CCPA immunity due to COVID-19, and how companies have been botching the California privacy law since before the pandemic 👇news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-da…

Our latest oped in Washington Post Opinions: tech companies you’ve likely never heard of are tapping vast troves of your data to generate secret "surveillance scores” about you that may determine whether you get an apartment, a job, or medical care #privacy #AI washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

Data isn’t just being collected from your phone. It’s being used to score you, Harvey Rosenfield and Laura Antonini ⚖️ write wapo.st/2D6zGSt

🚨🚨🚨 Secret surveillance scores “should be extraordinarily controversial, not just the occasional topic of tech journalists.” 👇

Abolishing #PACER fees is necessary to achieve an open & transparent judiciary. Everyone should have access to court filings w/out having to fork over 10 cents a page to get a document. This isn't a photocopy machine at a Kinko's in 1995. #OpenCourtsAct news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/ju…

In a June 2019 petition, we asked the FTC to investigate job scoring firm HireVue for unfair algorithmic practices. Today, Hirevue announces it will stop analyzing facial expressions as part of its applicant scoring system. wired.com/story/job-scre… #AI #privacy

“People know that the civil justice system is broken,” says Harvey Rosenfield. “In their daily pocketbook struggles they’re completely vulnerable. Most Americans have no rights or remedies.” latimes.com/business/story…

See: Businesses have been ripping off consumers for 50 years. Here's how we can strike back latimes.com/business/story…

"A proposed model law could rein in some of corporate America's bad behavior toward consumers." Columnist Michael Hiltzik explains: latimes.com/business/story…

Reboot Required: The Civil Justice System Has Crashed shows how business goliaths sponsored a fifty-year campaign to reprogram the nation’s civil laws and judicial procedures to favor corporations and the elites. #consumerprotection Find out more here-representconsumers.org

See: California Advocates Counterattack Corporate Crime and Control mailchi.mp/nader/californ…

.Harvey Rosenfield and Laura Antonini ⚖️ joined Alan Kaplinsky on our #consumerfinance podcast. Harvey and Laura authored the study, "Reboot Required: The #CivilJustice System Has Crashed." bit.ly/3LPu78w #consumereducation #REPRESENT

“Claims rates are something that attorneys don’t really talk about." law.com/2022/05/02/are…

"Without fundamental reform, our legal system will be unable to confront the complex challenges of the coming decades." I explain why it's time to reboot the civil justice system in a Bloomberg Law Insight news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action/c…

#NonCompliant is back! Really excited to have Laura Antonini ⚖️ & Harvey Rosenfield of #REPRESENT on to discuss their new report on protecting consumers from corporate wrongdoing & (gasp) how to reform #classactions. And yes, #Girardi comes up too. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/non…