Updates

PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Says Trump Administration Can’t Use Its Own Delays to Evade Review of Voter Citizenship Lists

September 17, 2026

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) today urged a federal court to swiftly rule on the Trump administration’s plan to create and distribute “State Citizenship Lists.”

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Fighting Federal Data Abuses

• Voter Privacy

• Updates

Consumer Groups File Comments in Support of Robocall Mitigation Rule

September 10, 2026

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Updates

PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Applauds Gov. Newsom For Signing Prohibition on Addictive Features, Changes to California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code

September 10, 2026

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• The First Amendment

• Updates

EPIC, Restore the Fourth File Amicus Brief in Chatrie v. United States Urging the Fourth Circuit to Rule Geofence Warrant Unconstitutional

September 10, 2026

• Data Protection

• Fourth Amendment

• Location Tracking

• Privacy in Public

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

PRESS RELEASE: Appeals Court Rejects Trump Administration Effort to Reinstate SAVE Voter Purge Database

September 5, 2026

A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court ruling blocking its illegal expansion of the Systematic Alien Verification Entitlements (SAVE) database, and the government may not use the unreliable system for mass voter purges ahead of the midterm elections.

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Commends Delaware for Strengthening Privacy Law, Strictly Protecting Sensitive Data 

September 2, 2026

Today, Delaware Governor Matt Meyer signed a law to strengthen the state’s privacy law and provide more robust protections for Delawareans’ personal data. 

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Updates

EPIC Commends California Legislature for Regulating Addictive Social Media Design Instead of Banning Minors’ Access

September 1, 2026

EPIC, in close partnership with youth online safety advocates, worked to encourage lawmakers to amend this bill from its original formulation as a complete ban on youth social media access to instead a regulation that preserves youth access to digital social spaces while ensuring platforms must designed with their safety in mind.

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Privacy Laws

• Social Media Privacy

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Updates

PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Sues To Block Illegal Trump Administration Plan To Build Master Database of U.S. Citizens That Threatens Privacy and Risks Chaos Ahead of Midterms

September 1, 2026

The unprecedented federal database violates the Constitution, the Privacy Act and the Social Security Act, exposing millions of Americans’ sensitive personal information.

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Fighting Federal Data Abuses

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. Privacy Laws

• Voter Privacy

• Updates

EPIC Joins Coalition Asking FTC to Crack Down on Abusive Push Notifications in Wagering Apps

August 28, 2026

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Updates

EPIC Urges First and Seventh Circuits to Protect Voter Privacy and Refuse DOJ’s Voter Roll Demand 

August 27, 2026

EPIC filed four amicus briefs this week urging the First and Seventh Circuit to rebuff the Department of Justice’s unlawful demand for voter rolls.

• Data Security

• Fighting Federal Data Abuses

• Government Databases

• Open Government

• U.S. Privacy Laws

• Voter Privacy

• Updates