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Strong Bill Protecting Consumers from Harms of Automated Decision Systems Passes California Assembly
June 4, 2025
This bill would require companies that develop and use automated decision systems to test them, inform people if an ADS will be used to make an important decision about them, and provide an explanation of the decision after it is made.
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EPIC Urges the CPPA to Reinstate Strong Consumer Protections in Cybersecurity, Risk Assessments, and ADMT Rulemaking
June 3, 2025
EPIC submitted comments to the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) urging the Agency to restore earlier drafts of the regulations that were more privacy protective rather than adopting the current draft, which has been significantly weakened.
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Data Minimization
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Data Security
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EPIC Joins Over 140 Organizations in Opposing Ban on State AI Regulation
May 21, 2025
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EPIC Opposes House Proposal to Ban States from Regulating AI
May 12, 2025
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s budget reconciliation text includes dangerous provisions on artificial intelligence that would allocate $500 million to federal government spending on AI and preempt state AI legislation for the next 10 years.
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EPIC Urges California Privacy Protection Agency to Resist Industry Pressure to Weaken Draft Regulations
May 2, 2025
EPIC urges the CPPA to restore the regulations to their more privacy-protective earlier iterations.
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Maryland Legislature Passes AI Working Group Bill After Incorporating Civil Society Feedback
April 11, 2025
After extensive civil society pushback, the working group now includes representatives from nonprofits focused on privacy, consumer protection, civil rights and liberties, and labor.
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EPIC Joins Coalition Letter Opposing Connecticut S.B. 1249 on AI
April 8, 2025
The coalition letter urges the General Assembly to instead turn its attention to strengthening and passing legislation like S.B. 2.
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Virginia Governor Vetoes Weak AI Legislation
March 25, 2025
While regulating the use of automated decision systems in these life-altering decisions is an urgent need, this Virginia bill had serious shortcomings that would have rendered it almost meaningless in practice.
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EPIC, Coalition Oppose Maryland AI Working Group Bill With No Public Interest Representatives
March 21, 2025
EPIC expressed concerns that an unbalanced working group such as this one will result in insurmountable bias against meaningful AI regulation.
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EPIC Signs Coalition Letter Calling on OMB to Preserve Key Safeguards for AI in Federal Government
March 6, 2025
EPIC joined a coalition of over a dozen civil society organizations in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to call for the preservation of crucial transparency and safety protections for AI use cases in the federal government as the OMB implements President Trump’s Executive Order 14179, “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.”
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