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SCOTUS Will Hear Texas Age-Gating Case
July 2, 2024
This morning, the Supreme Court granted cert in a case challenging the constitutionality of a Texas law that requires users to verify their ages before accessing websites where more than one-third of the available material is sexually explicit.
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Age Assurance
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Children's Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Platform Accountability & Governance
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Supreme Court Deals Blow to Big Tech’s Campaign to Immunize Itself from Regulation
July 1, 2024
The Supreme Court’s decision in the NetChoice cases is a huge loss for NetChoice. NetChoice's shoot-for-the-moon strategy failed miserably. The Big Tech trade group sought a pronouncement that platform design choices are wholly protected expression, but the Court refused to take the bait. Instead, the Court took the approach that EPIC advocated in its amicus brief: to the extent that the decision recognizes any protected editorial judgment for platforms’ decisions about whether and how to display content, it is narrowly confined to decisions that reflect a company’s judgements about the content, and does not include content-neutral design decisions.
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EPIC Joins Letter Urging Restoration of Civil Rights Protections in APRA
June 25, 2024
EPIC has joined a letter led by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) urging House Energy and Commerce Committee leadership to postpone the upcoming markup of the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) and restore key civil rights protections and algorithmic auditing provisions.
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APRA Discussion Draft Advanced by House Subcommittee
May 23, 2024
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Consumer Privacy
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Privacy Laws
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American Privacy Rights Act Hearing Tomorrow
April 16, 2024
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Privacy Laws
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EPIC, Brennan Center, CDT: New HPSCI Bill Reauthorizing Section 702 Is “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing”
December 10, 2023
EPIC joined the Brennan Center for Justice an the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) in issuing a one-pager on the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023, the newly-introduced bill to reauthorize FISA Section 702 by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The one-pager details how the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act is an "anti-reform bill in disguise" that would in fact expand surveillance conducted pursuant to Section 702, including by:
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EPIC, Coalition Oppose Any Short-Term Reauthorization of Section 702
November 13, 2023
EPIC and a coalition of privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights groups urged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to refrain from including any short-term reauthorization of FISA Section 702 in the continuing resolution or any other “must-pass” legislation.
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FISA Section 702
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Intelligence Surveillance
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EPIC Publishes Quick Guide to the Government Surveillance Reform Act (GSRA)
November 9, 2023
Yesterday, EPIC published a Quick Guide to the Government Surveillance Reform Act (GSRA), exploring key provisions of the sweeping, bicameral, bipartisan bill and why they matter. The Quick Guide includes important context for each of the key provisions, as well as commentary on how the GSRA would prohibit harmful surveillance practices and close statutory loopholes.
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EPIC Opposes STOP CSAM Act
July 21, 2023
EPIC sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer today opposing the STOP CSAM Act, which has also been filed as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
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Cybersecurity
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Anna Gomez Nominated to Federal Communications Commission
May 23, 2023
President Biden has nominated Anna Gomez to serve as member of the Federal Communications Commission, as well as current Commissioners Brendan Carr and Geoffrey Starks. The FCC has been without a full Commission for an unprecedented two-and-a-half years as President Biden's initial nomination of attorney and consumer advocate Gigi Sohn stalled in the U.S. Senate over groundless attacks on Sohn's record.
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Data Protection
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