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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.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
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.
- AI Policy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Minimization
- Data Security
- Updates
EPIC Joins Over 140 Organizations in Opposing Ban on State AI Regulation

May 21, 2025
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
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.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
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.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Minimization
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Privacy Laws
- Risk Assessments
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
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.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
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.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
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.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
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.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
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.”
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Government AI Use
- Updates

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