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EPIC Applauds Passage of Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code

May 29, 2025

Today, the Vermont Legislature passed the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). The Vermont AADC protects kids’ privacy, enhances kids’ autonomy, and ensures their online safety by prohibiting abusive data and design practices. The bill now awaits the Governor’s approval.
- Age Assurance
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Online Advertising & Tracking
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- Social Media Privacy
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
Updated COPPA Rule (Finally) Finalized Today

April 21, 2025

Today the updated Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA) Rule was published in the Federal Register, finalizing the much-needed modernization to the COPPA Rule. After a nearly 6-year rulemaking process, the Federal Trade Commission unanimously approved the updated COPPA Rule in January 2025, but it did not become effective until today’s publication. Finalizing the COPPA Rule improves the Commission’s ability to protect kids online.
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Minimization
- Data Protection
- Privacy Laws
- Social Media Privacy
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Updates
Vermont Senate Passes Age-Appropriate Design Code

March 14, 2025

Yesterday the Vermont Senate passed Senate Bill 69, the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (Vermont AADC), on a bipartisan 25-5 vote. Last month EPIC testified in support of the bill and submitted additional written testimony.
- Age Assurance
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Minimization
- Data Protection
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Social Media Privacy
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Testify in FTC Hearing on Impersonation Scam Rule

January 30, 2025

On January 17, 2025, EPIC offered video testimony during the Federal Trade Commission's hearing on its Rule on Impersonation of Government, Businesses, and Individuals.
- Consumer Privacy
- Robocalls
- Social Media Privacy
- Updates
EPIC Applauds Critical Updates to COPPA Rule, Strengthening FTC’s Ability to Protect Kids’ Privacy

January 16, 2025

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) applauds today’s action by the Federal Trade Commission to strengthen and modernize the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule. Approved by a unanimous 5-0 vote, the updated COPPA Rule illustrates the Commission’s strong, bipartisan commitment to protecting kids’ privacy and safety online.
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Minimization
- Data Protection
- Social Media Privacy
- Updates
FTC Report on Streaming and Social Media Companies Emphasizes Privacy, Security, and AI-Related Risks

September 30, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission published the results from its 6(b) study on streaming and social media companies, detailing vast commercial surveillance of consumers—including non-users—for the purposes of monetizing of their personal information.
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Location Tracking
- Online Advertising & Tracking
- Social Media Privacy
- Updates
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.
- Age Assurance
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- Proposed U.S. Legislation
- Social Media Privacy
- The First Amendment
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
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.
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- Proposed U.S. Legislation
- Social Media Privacy
- The First Amendment
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
Senate AI Roadmap Fails to Recognize or Address AI Harms

May 15, 2024
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- Government AI Use
- Social Media Privacy
- Web Scraping
- Updates
EPIC-Led Coalition Applauds FCC Classifying ISPs as Common Carriers, Urges Immediate Privacy Rulemaking

December 15, 2023

EPIC, Public Knowledge, Consumer Federation of America, and Demand Progress Education Fund submitted comments to the FCC applauding the agency's proposal to re-classify broadband providers as common carriers subject to Title II of the Communications Act.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- Robocalls
- Social Media Privacy
- Updates

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