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  • EPIC Calls for a Stronger Privacy Act that Limits Disclosure Exceptions, Broadens Relief, and Creates Personnel Standards 

    May 8, 2025

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  • Fifth Circuit: FCC Can’t Assess Monetary Damages Against AT&T Without Jury Trial

    April 29, 2025

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  • 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. 

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  • EPIC Joins NCLC to Urge the CFPB to Protect Consumer Financial Privacy  

    April 16, 2025

    EPIC joined the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) in a comment responding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)’s request for information about consumer financial privacy.

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  • EPIC Supports Massachusetts Bill to Prohibit Surveillance Pricing Based on Biometric Information

    April 11, 2025

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  • EPIC, NCL, CFA, and Others Urge CFPB to Rein in Harmful Data Broker Practices 

    April 2, 2025

    In a comment filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today, EPIC, the National Consumers League (NCL), and Consumer Federation of America (CFA) urged the CFPB to finalize rules that would protect consumers from harm caused by data brokers.

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  • EPIC Joins If/When/How, Reproductive Justice Coalition in Purl v. HHS Amicus Brief

    March 25, 2025

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  • EPIC Backs Rep. Trahan’s Inquiry Into Privacy Act Reforms

    March 19, 2025

    Adopted by Congress in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, the Privacy Act is the principal law governing the collection and disclosure of personal information held by federal agencies.

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  • PRESS RELEASE: EPIC and Americans for Financial Reform Oppose Attempt to Strip Away Payment App Protections

    March 10, 2025

    EPIC and Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) oppose the Trump Administration’s recent attacks on the CFPB and efforts by Congress to overturn finalized CFPB rules that protect users of payment apps. These attacks put Americans’ privacy and financial wellbeing at risk, as well as threatening to destabilize the financial industry.

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  • EPIC Signs Coalition Letter Seeking to Preserve Independent Agencies

    February 28, 2025

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