Megan Iorio

Megan is Senior Counsel at EPIC and Director of EPIC’s Platform Governance and Accountability Program. Her recent focus has been on holding Big Tech accountable for their harmful design choices. She provided drafting assistance to the legislative sponsors of the recently-enacted Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code. Megan also coordinates and files amicus briefs in many important platform accountability cases and publishes essays on the topic on the EPIC blog and in other media outlets. She has expertise in the First Amendment, Section 230, and legal frameworks that protect kids and adults from harm online.

In her role as director of EPIC’s amicus work, Megan covered a wide range of issues, including the Fourth Amendment, First Amendment, biometric privacy, privacy implications of web scraping and aggregation of “publicly available” information, privacy rights enforcement and justiciability, robocall protections, and limiting the flow of location data. Megan has filed amicus briefs on emerging privacy and technology issues in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and the high courts of California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. Megan has also argued for EPIC before the New Jersey Supreme Court in State v. Andrews (compelled decryption of a cell phone) and Bozzi v. City of Jersey City (right to privacy in personal information in government records).

Before joining EPIC, Megan was the Organizing Director of Just Foreign Policy, where she led grassroots campaigns promoting progressive foreign policy reform. Megan graduated from Georgetown Law, where she was a Public Interest Fellow. During law school, Megan worked at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Jerusalem, Georgetown’s Human Rights Institute, and Georgetown’s Center on Privacy & Technology. She received her undergraduate degree from New York University. Megan is a member of the D.C. bar.

Areas of expertise: Platform governance and accountability, web scraping, Section 230, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, children’s online safety, social media, appellate litigation, and chatbots.

Contact: [Mailbox], 202.483.1140 x124