Comments

Comments to the CPPA on Proposed Regulations Regarding Cybersecurity, Risk Assessments, and ADMTs

February 20, 2025

We commend the Agency for taking steps to protect consumers from the significant privacy harms caused by the use of automated decisionmaking technologies and the processing of personal data without adequate assessment and mitigation of the resulting privacy and security risks.

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Minimization

• Comments

Comments of EPIC in re the Federal Trade Commission’s Proposed Order & Settlement with Mobilewalla

January 13, 2025

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Data Minimization

• Data Protection

• Location Tracking

• Online Advertising & Tracking

• Comments

EPIC Comments to Dutch DPA on Emotion Recognition Prohibition under EU AI Act

December 17, 2024

By notice published on October 31, 2024, the Netherlands’ Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (“AP”) sought input1 on its interpretation of the sixth prohibition of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (hereinafter the “AI Act”)2 which prohibits AI systems intended to identify or infer the emotions or intentions of natural persons (“emotion recognition systems”)3 in the areas of workplace or education institutions based on biometric data (“Prohibition F”).4

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Data Protection

• International Privacy

• Student Privacy

• Workplace Privacy

• Comments

Joint Comment Regarding OMB’s Request for Information on Executive Branch Agency Handling of Commercially Available Information

December 17, 2024

This comment highlights one dangerous aspect of agency handling of CAI that demands OMB’s attention: law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ access to and use of CAI in ways that evade legal requirements set forth in the Fourth Amendment and various privacy laws enacted by Congress. We discuss the Fourth Amendment doctrines and statutes that restrict the government surveillance at issue here, how the government is using CAI to circumvent those rules, the harms of this circumvention, and recommendations that OMB should implement to regulate these practices.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Comments

EPIC Comments to CBP on Biometric Identity

October 29, 2024

EPIC submits these comments opposing CBP's revision and extension of this information collection, particularly the use of facial recognition technology.

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• APA Comments

EPIC Letter to FCC Enforcement Bureau and Privacy and Data Protection Task Force (Oct. 2024)

October 22, 2024

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Cybersecurity

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Data Security

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• Location Tracking

• Robocalls

• APA Comments

Letter Comment Supporting Petition for Rulemaking to Amend Identity Theft Definitions in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (Regulation V)

October 9, 2024

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Comments

Comments of EPIC to the NY Attorney General on the NY SAFE for Kids Act

October 1, 2024

• Age Assurance

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• The First Amendment

• Comments

Feedback of EPIC to the European Commission regarding the First Periodic Review of the EU-US Data Privacy Frameworks

September 5, 2024

• Comments

Comments of the Electronic Privacy Information Center to the California Privacy Protection Agency on Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Data Broker Registration Regulations

August 20, 2024

EPIC supports the Agency’s efforts to enhance its data broker registry and rein in the privacy harms caused by the industry. EPIC supports the proposed regulatory clarifications and definitions and urges the Agency to require that data brokers supply an individual point of contact to be published on the registry.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Comments