Coalition Efforts

Consumer Action is working on these important issues along with other organizations. If you would like to know more about these issues, please see the "For More Information" within each effort.

FTC should consider protections for contactless payment systems
Consumer Action joined in comments to the Federal Trade Commission regarding contactless payment systems, urging the consideration of broad consumer protections on issues such as privacy, security, and dispute rights.

Google should comply with California privacy law
Consumer Action joined in a letter asking Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, to post a direct link to its privacy policy on its homepage, in accordance with California law.

Potential pitfalls for consumers in mobile marketplace
In a letter to Donald S. Clark, Secretary of the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Action and Consumer Federation of America lay out relevant issues regarding the mobile marketplace and ask the FTC to consider potential dangers to consumers in its Town Hall meeting on the subject.

E-Prescribing legislation must include privacy protection
In conjunction with its Patient Privacy Coalition partners, Consumer Action asked Senators Baucus and Grassley, Representatives Rangel, McCrery, Dingell and Barton to include a privacy provision in any e-prescribing legislation before them.

Recommendations to the FTC on behavioral advertising
Consumer Action, in conjunction with its Privacy Coalition partners, has asked the Federal Trade Commission to consider enforcement a necessary part of their principles in dealing with online behavioral advertising.

Real ID plagued by fiscal and privacy concerns
Consumer Action joined in a letter opposing further funding for the Real ID Act of 2005. Several states have refused to implement the act because of the Department of Homeland Security's failure to adequately address technology and privacy concerns.

Project aims to protect personal health information
Consumer Action Privacy Coalition partner, the Center for Democracy & Technology, has launched a major program in collaboration with the Health Privacy Project to develop and promote privacy policy solutions for personal health information. The project hopes to deliver developments in health information technology (HIT) that have the potential to improve health care quality, reduce costs and empower consumers to play a greater role in their own care.

Patient control of health data
Consumer Action joined the Coalition for Patient Privacy to support HR 5442, authored by Congressman Ed Markey, which would give Americans stronger rights to to protect their most sensitive information on earth, their health records.

Consumer Coalition for Health Privacy
The mission of the Consumer Coalition for Health Privacy — organized by the Health Privacy Project — is to educate and empower healthcare consumers to have a prominent and informed voice on health privacy issues at the federal, state, and local levels.

The Privacy Coalition
The Fourth Amendment states that "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated." In addition, the U.S. has adopted many laws protecting Americans from privacy invasive practices by both the public and private sectors. Privacy is one of America's most fundamental values.