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  • Google Found Liable for Maintaining a Monopoly in the AdTech Market 

    April 18, 2025

    A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in favor of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in their case against Google for maintaining monopoly power in the advertising technology industry.

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  • 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.

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  • EPIC Joins Public Knowledge,Benton Institute in Supporting FCC Authority to Combat Digital Discrimination and Establish Civil Rights Office

    April 2, 2024

    On April 1, Public Knowledge, joined by EPIC and the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, filed Reply Comments in support of the FCC's legal authority to prevent and eliminate digital discrimination.

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  • EPIC Commends CFPB’s Personal Financial Data Rights Rulemaking 

    December 1, 2023

    EPIC joined Public Citizen and a coalition of civil society organizations this week in expressing support for the goals of the CFPB’s proposed Personal Financial Data Rights Rule. The rulemaking aims to enhance consumer privacy and data security and promote competition in the financial services industry.

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  • FCC Advances Net Neutrality Rulemaking, Raising Prospect of Stricter Privacy Rules for ISPs

    October 20, 2023

    The Federal Communications Commissions voted to move forward with its open internet protections rulemaking, a measure similar to the net neutrality rule adopted by the FCC in 2015 but later repealed during the Trump administration.

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  • EPIC Again Urges FTC to Regulate Surveillance Companies Using Government Agencies for Endorsements

    October 4, 2023

    EPIC filed comments to the FTC on public sector endorsements of surveillance technology products.

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  • EPIC Urges DOJ, FTC to Consider Data Protection and Consumer Privacy in Merger Guidelines

    September 18, 2023

    Mergers frequently involve the consolidation of data sets, which as EPIC explained “can entrench a firm’s dominant market position, raise barriers to entry for new and smaller firms, and exacerbate the effects of harmful consumer data practices.”

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  • New EPIC Report Sheds Light on Generative A.I. Harms 

    May 23, 2023

    EPIC has just released a new report detailing the wide variety of harms that new generative A.I. tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALL-E pose! While many of these tools have been lauded for their capability to produce new and believable text, images, audio, and videos, the rapid integration of generative AI technology into consumer-facing products has undermined years-long efforts to make AI development transparent and accountable.

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  • FTC Investigation Into Amazon Prime Dark Patterns Intensifies

    August 5, 2022

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    July 5, 2022

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