EPIC Alert
The EPIC Alert, a monthly publication of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington DC, covers issues related to privacy and civil liberties in the Information Age.
The EPIC Alert has been published since 1994, and currently has a readership of over 10,000. It is among the longest-running electronic newsletters on the Internet.
EPIC ALERT 32.04 – APRIL 30, 2025
TOP UPDATES
- EPIC testified in Massachusetts on a series of consumer privacy and surveillance pricing bills. EPIC Deputy Director Caitriona Fitzgerald published an accompanying op-ed in the Boston Globe explaining that data privacy laws are only as good as their consumer protections. ➔
- EPIC—represented by Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic—filed an amicus brief in Kohls v. Bonta, a case that addresses the balance between free speech and regulating misleading deepfakes that threaten election integrity. ➔
- EPIC and partners urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to finalize rules that would protect consumers from harm caused by data brokers. ➔
- Director of Litigation John Davisson testified before the House Oversight Committee on the privacy implications of last month’s disclosure of 60,000 pages from the federal archive of JFK assassination records, which caused the release of hundreds of Social Security numbers. ➔
Read the full April 2025 EPIC Alert here.
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