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Comment on Disclosure and Transparency of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content in Political Advertisements (FCC Request for Comment)

September 5, 2024

In these comments, EPIC commends the FCC for pursuing AI transparency in the realm of political advertisements, but cautions the Commission that more granular information (and limited restraints) will be necessary to ensure the public can discern what content is real and worth believing.
- Access to Information
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Democracy & Free Speech
- APA Comments
Reply in Cybersecurity Labeling for Internet of Things (PSHSB Request for Comment)

September 4, 2024
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Encryption
- Location Tracking
- APA Comments
Reply Comments in re: Implementation of the National Suicide Hotline Act of 2018 (2FNPRM)

July 30, 2024

EPIC applauds the Commission’s desire to better support individuals experiencing a mental health crisis by making help easier to reach; however, we urge the Commission to prioritize getting 988 right for the people it is meant to help.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- APA Comments
Reply Comments in re: Supporting Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence (FNPRM)

June 25, 2024

EPIC, CETA, NNEDV, and Public Knowledge file these reply comments to assist the Commission in prioritizing what it should include in an immediate Report and Order, including making trauma-informed connected car services more accessible to survivors and promoting anti-abusability design for connected cars.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Location Tracking
- APA Comments
In re: Supporting Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence (FNPRM)

May 28, 2024

EPIC and Public Knowledge file these comments to support the FCC's efforts to better protect survivors of domestic violence by reducing the opportunities available to abusers to control, surveil, or revictimize survivors by misusing America’s communications systems.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- APA Comments
Reply Comment in Cybersecurity Labeling for Internet of Things (FNPRM)

May 28, 2024

Although EPIC tentatively supports the FCC’s proposals to require disclosures related to high-risk countries in the Trust Mark label, we urge the Commission to also require disclosures about access to consumer data, including indirect methods of obtaining access to data about Americans.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- APA Comments
Reply Comment – Preventing Location Tracking via Diameter and SS7 (Request for Comment)

May 28, 2024

EPIC submits these comments to the FCC regarding the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau’s request for comment on communications service providers’ implementation of security countermeasures to prevent exploitation of vulnerabilities in the Signaling System 7 (SS7) and Diameter protocols.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- APA Comments
Coalition Comment – Supporting Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence (FNPRM)

May 28, 2024

The undersigned domestic violence survivor advocacy, privacy, government accountability, civil liberties, civil rights, racial justice, human rights, and other civil society groups submit this comment to urge the FCC to foreground the needs of survivors of domestic and sexual violence and to protect privacy when regulating connected cars and other internet-connected devices.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- APA Comments
Reply Comments in Implementing the IIJA: Prevention and Elimination of Digital Discrimination

April 12, 2024
- Communications Privacy
- Competition and Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- APA Comments
NCLC & EPIC FCC Numbering Ex Parte (03/25/24)

March 29, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Robocalls
- APA Comments

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