Digital Library

EPIC Letter to FCC Enforcement Bureau and Privacy and Data Protection Task Force (Oct. 2024)

October 22, 2024

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Cybersecurity

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Data Security

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• Location Tracking

• Robocalls

• APA Comments

Comments of EPIC to the CFPB On the Prohibition on Creditors and Consumer Reporting Agencies Concerning Medical Information

August 13, 2024

With this comment, we support the CFPB’s proposals and emphasize the Bureau’s legal authority to promulgate the proposed rules.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• APA Comments

Comments of EPIC in re the Federal Trade Commission’s Proposed Order with Blackbaud, Inc.

March 19, 2024

• Consumer Privacy

• Cybersecurity

• Data Protection

• Data Security

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• APA Comments

EPIC Comments to the FTC on Proposed Rulemaking to Amend the Health Breach Notification Rule

August 9, 2023

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) submits these comments in support of the proposed changes and to share additional recommendations and expertise with the Commission.

• Cybersecurity

• Data Protection

• Data Security

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• APA Comments

Comments of EPIC in re the Federal Trade Commission’s Proposed Order & Settlement with Vitagene, Inc.

July 25, 2023

• Data Protection

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• APA Comments

Comments of EPIC on HHS Proposed Rulemaking to Modify HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy

June 20, 2023

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) submits these comments in response to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)’s April 17, 2023 request for comment on its notice of proposed rulemaking to modify disclosure standards for protected health information under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act).[1] The proposed modifications would limit uses and disclosures of Protected Health Information (PHI) where the information relates to lawfully obtained reproductive health care.[2] EPIC commends HHS for taking meaningful steps to protect the privacy of people’s reproductive health information, but we recommend that the agency further strengthen the rule to ensure that these protections are not easily sidestepped, to raise the baseline level of protection for all health data to the constitutional standard, and to specifically overrule state mandatory reporting laws that would otherwise undermine the proposed rule. 

• Data Protection

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• APA Comments

Comments of EPIC in re the Federal Trade Commission’s Proposed Order & Settlement with BetterHelp, Inc.

April 13, 2023

EPIC commends the Commission for using its Section 5 authority to take enforcement actions against companies like BetterHelp that are engaged in unfair and deceptive practices involving health data, especially where insufficient protections for personal information are involved.

• Data Protection

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• APA Comments

Comments of EPIC, CHLP, PrEP4All, and Patient Privacy Rights to HHS on HIV PrEP Database SoRN

February 27, 2023

• Data Protection

• Government Databases

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support, and Remove Barriers to, Coordinated Care and Individual Engagement

May 6, 2021

• Data Protection

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• APA Comments