As your Attorney General, I take seriously the need to protect consumers in our digital age. That’s why it was meaningful and humbling when the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) presented me with its Champion of Freedom award. Many public officials whom I admire and look to for inspiration have received this prestigious award; and it’s a particularly deep honor to be only the third State Attorney General to receive it (the first was then-California Attorney General Kamala Harris.)
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The theme of the evening was “Envisioning a Better Future for the Internet.” My entire career has focused on protecting consumers and, in particular, protecting them in the face of a changing Internet. With the rise of Big Tech goliaths, increasing concerns about our privacy, and, now, the looming impact of Artificial Intelligence, we have good reasons to be concerned. I discussed this in a recent article in Wired Magazine.
In Colorado, we are leading the nation with our implementation of the Colorado Privacy Act, providing consumers with control over their data and how it is used. We also developed a cutting-edge analysis of how social media companies fail to prevent teen access to fentanyl, paving the way for legislation to address this issue. And, to protect victims of cyberstalking, I defended Colorado’s stalking law before the U.S. Supreme Court. (Unfortunately, the Supreme Court’s decision undermined the protection of victims, recognizing a First Amendment defense for stalkers).
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