<![CDATA[On June 5, 2019, Francella Ochillo, the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s (NHMC) Vice President of Policy and General Counsel, and Oscar Lopez, NHMC’s Google Public Policy Fellow, attended the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Rights discussion in Washington, DC.]]>
<![CDATA[On March 27, 2019, Francella Ochillo, the National Hispanic Media Coalition’s Vice President of Policy & General Counsel, presented on baseline requirements for federal privacy legislation at Access Now’s Data Privacy Summit. The conference included a series of panel discussions with speakers from various ends of the political spectrum. They discussed the state of the data ecosystem and need for a legislative response. ]]>
<![CDATA[On February 27, 2019, the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) joined Public Knowledge, New America’s Open Technology Institute, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center, and Consumer Federation of America in a tweet storm surrounding Policy Principles for a Federal Data Privacy Framework in the United States, a hearing hosted by the Senate Commerce Committee.]]>
<![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked for public input on consumer protection issues that arise from the use of algorithms, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics. On February 15, 2019, NHMC joined comments led by the Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law urging the FTC to use its authority to help reduce algorithmic discrimination by studying past examples of these harms to inform future action.]]>
<![CDATA[On February 13, 2019, the National Hispanic Media Coalition and 42 Leadership Conference organizations sent a letter to Congress asking lawmakers to protect civil rights, equity, and equal opportunity in the digital ecosystem. As Congress moves closer to enacting privacy legislation, the undersigned organizations emphasize the importance for lawmakers to investigate ongoing data privacy abuses that harm marginalized communities. ]]>
