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EPIC’s Davisson testifies before House Energy & Commerce Committee

September 19, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Updates
U.S. Sues TikTok for Significant Child Privacy Violations

August 8, 2024

This week the Department of Justice sued TikTok for “flagrantly violating” the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (“COPPA Rule”), and a FTC Consent Order from 2019 as a result of previous COPPA and FTC Act violations.
- Children's Privacy
- Data Protection
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. 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
Semafor: TikTok in denial as US ‘ban’ approaches

June 24, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- News
EPIC & NCLC Urge Second Circuit to Rehear Case About Automated Call Protections

June 4, 2024

EPIC and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) have filed an amicus brief urging the full Second Circuit to rehear Soliman v. Subway, a case about whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s autodialer restriction protects against automated calls or only randomly dialed calls.
- Consumer Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- Robocalls
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Updates
Soliman v. Subway Franchisee Advert. Fund Tr., Ltd.

June 4, 2024

Whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s (TCPA’s) autodialer restriction covers automated list-based campaign dialers, or if the TCPA only restricts use of dialers that generate telephone numbers.
- Consumer Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- Robocalls
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Amicus Briefs
Generating Harms

May 14, 2024
- Access to Information
- AI in the Criminal Justice System
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Big Data
- Children's Privacy
- Commercial AI Use
- Communications Privacy
- Competition and Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Election Security
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- Government AI Use
- Government Records & Privacy
- Health Privacy
- International Privacy
- International Privacy Laws
- Online Harassment
- Privacy Laws
- Proposed U.S. Legislation
- Robocalls
- Screening & Scoring
- Social Media Privacy
- Student Privacy
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Web Scraping
- Workplace Privacy
Data minimization is the key to a meaningful privacy law

May 9, 2024

This is the sixth blog post in EPIC’s series on Data Minimization. We have previously discussed data minimization as a framework to curb harmful commercial surveillance practices, harms that stem from out of context secondary data uses, data minimization as a pillar of data security, data minimization as a tool to protect health data privacy, and data minimization as a way to regulate surveillance advertising. This post discusses existing data minimization rules in state and federal laws.
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Brokers
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Analysis
President Biden Signs Law Limiting Data Broker Sales

April 24, 2024

President Biden has signed H.R. 815, which includes the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024.
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Brokers
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Updates
EPIC Statement on House Passage of Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act

April 17, 2024

Today, the House passed the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, H.R.4639, which would prohibit intelligence agencies and law enforcement from purchasing Americans’ data without a warrant.
- Fourth Amendment
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Statements

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