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FCC Requires T-Mobile to Implement Some Data Minimization and Zero-Trust Architecture

October 10, 2024
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Updates
EPIC Urges FCC to Provide Robust Oversight, Accountability, and Transparency in IoT Cybersecurity Label

September 5, 2024

EPIC recently submitted a comment to supplement our previously filed joint comments to call on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ensure robust oversight, accountability, and transparency for the Cyber Trust Mark program, a voluntary cybersecurity labelling program for Internet of Things (IoT).
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Updates
EPIC Joins Coalition Urging FCC to Strengthen Consumer Privacy and Trust in IoT Cybersecurity Label

August 20, 2024

EPIC joined Consumer Reports, Carnegie Mellon University, Public Knowledge, and New York University in calling for the Federal Communications Commission to take five key steps to boost consumer confidence in the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, related to ensuring accurate labels, including disclosures about sensors and other privacy concerns, and promoting third-party accountability.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Updates
Ohio Telecom Association et al. v. FCC and USA (Data Breach Reporting Req’ts)

August 20, 2024
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- Amicus Briefs
EPIC Coalition Amicus: Congress Gave FCC Authority to Protect Phone Subscribers with Breach Notification Rules

August 10, 2024
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- Updates
The FCC Capped Rates on Prison Phone Calls, Here’s What Needs to Happen Next

August 8, 2024
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Surveillance Oversight
- Analysis
EPIC Urges FCC to Protect Data of Callers to the 988 Crisis Hotline System

July 30, 2024

EPIC urged the FCC to protect and reassure 988 callers by prohibiting the collection of geolocation information, by prohibiting carriers from disclosing caller data, and by requiring carriers and vendors to meet basic cybersecurity standards. EPIC also recommended that the agency use a georouting method that cannot collect more precise location data in the future, that it be transparent about the harms of NCI so that would-be 988 callers can be re-assured that the agency understands their fears, and to include non-988 hotlines if it convenes stakeholders about 988 privacy.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- Updates
FCC Reduces Rates for Prison Phone Calls, Prohibits Charging Families for Surveillance

July 18, 2024

The FCC drastically lowered the cost of phone calls to jails and prisons, following EPIC's comments.
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Face Surveillance & Biometrics
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
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.
- Communications Privacy
- Competition and Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Updates
Bloomberg Law: Chevron’s Demise Boosts Threat to FCC’s Latest Privacy Focus (2)

July 12, 2024
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- News

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