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EPIC Urges FCC to Provide Robust Oversight, Accountability, and Transparency in IoT Cybersecurity Label

September 5, 2024

EPIC recently submitted a comment to supplement our previously filed joint comments to call on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ensure robust oversight, accountability, and transparency for the Cyber Trust Mark program, a voluntary cybersecurity labelling program for Internet of Things (IoT).
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Updates
EPIC Joins Coalition Urging FCC to Strengthen Consumer Privacy and Trust in IoT Cybersecurity Label

August 20, 2024

EPIC joined Consumer Reports, Carnegie Mellon University, Public Knowledge, and New York University in calling for the Federal Communications Commission to take five key steps to boost consumer confidence in the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, related to ensuring accurate labels, including disclosures about sensors and other privacy concerns, and promoting third-party accountability.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Updates
EPIC Coalition Amicus: Congress Gave FCC Authority to Protect Phone Subscribers with Breach Notification Rules

August 10, 2024
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- Updates
EPIC Urges FCC to Protect Data of Callers to the 988 Crisis Hotline System

July 30, 2024

EPIC urged the FCC to protect and reassure 988 callers by prohibiting the collection of geolocation information, by prohibiting carriers from disclosing caller data, and by requiring carriers and vendors to meet basic cybersecurity standards. EPIC also recommended that the agency use a georouting method that cannot collect more precise location data in the future, that it be transparent about the harms of NCI so that would-be 988 callers can be re-assured that the agency understands their fears, and to include non-988 hotlines if it convenes stakeholders about 988 privacy.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- Updates
EPIC Joins Public Knowledge in Supporting FCC Rule that Prohibits Digital Discrimination in Broadband Accessibility

July 12, 2024

Public Knowledge, joined by EPIC, in its amicus brief argued that the FCC's mandate to make communications technology available to all Americans dates back to at least the 1930s. The advocacy groups' brief included arguments that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 explicitly included a nondiscrimination provision to further this mandate, that the disparities made clear and made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic gave rise to the IIJA in which Congress more explicitly compelled the FCC to meet its mandate of universal service for communications technologies.
- Communications Privacy
- Competition and Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Updates
EPIC and 48 Civil Society Organizations Send Joint Statement to New EU Presidency to Withdraw CSA Regulation that Would Break Encryption.

July 2, 2024

EPIC and 48 civil society organizations sent a joint statement to the new president of the EU reiterating our concerns over the proposed
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Encryption
- International Privacy
- Updates
EPIC, NCLC Urge FTC to Clarify Scope and Include Non-Monetary Costs in Tech Support Telemarketing Sales Rule

June 24, 2024

EPIC and NCLC support the FTC requiring inbound tech support calls to comply with the TSR, but urges the Commission to clarify that this includes software and device components, and to consider non-monetary costs to consumers.
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Brokers
- Data Security
- Robocalls
- Updates
EPIC Encourages FinCEN to Center Privacy and Data Security in Consumer Identification Methods

May 29, 2024

Yesterday EPIC submitted comments urging the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to require strong privacy and security protections in their Consumer Identification Program (CIP) Rule that governs how banks obtain full Social Security Numbers (SSN) from third-party verifiers when a consumer opens an account or applies for a credit card.
- Big Data
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Government Records & Privacy
- Updates
EPIC Raises Phone Network Cybersecurity Concerns in FCC Comment

May 29, 2024

On May 28, EPIC submitted reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission in response to its request for information about the exploitation of security vulnerabilities within the Signaling System 7 (SS7) and Diameter protocols, a technological infrastructure that facilitates voice calls and text messaging.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- Updates
EPIC Urges FCC to Enhance Disclosures to Consumers in IoT Rulemaking

May 29, 2024

On May 24, EPIC filed reply comments in the Federal Communication Commission's Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Cybersecurity Labels for the Internet of Things, focused on disclosures related to operations performed in high-risk countries.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- Updates

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