New Economy, Advocate, PIRG; Policy Analyst, Frontier Group
Started on staff: 2016
B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, University of Kansas
R.J. focuses on manipulative advertising and the commercialization of personal data online as a part of her work to advance PIRG’s New Economy program. In her work at Frontier Group, she has authored research reports on government transparency, predatory auto lending and consumer debt. She was previously the tax and budget advocate for PIRG. When she’s not protecting the public interest, she is an avid reader, fiction writer and birder.
We're asking the FTC to write a data minimization rule - restricting companies to only gathering the data needed to provide a consumer the service they're expecting to get, and using it for just that purpose.
Video games and social media network platforms regularly use attention-hacking techniques on children and teens to get them to stay online longer.
The company's targeted advertising practices allegedly violated the California Consumer Protection Act.
Facebook isn’t sure where all the data it collects on its users goes. Apparently neither is Twitter.
The FTC wants to hear from anyone who has been pressured, swindled or misled at the dealership.
