Updates

In Martinez v. ZoomInfo, Ninth Circuit Recognizes Privacy Plaintiff Has Standing to Sue

• Article III Standing

• Consumer Privacy

• Updates

Judge adopts dangerously overbroad view of First Amendment that could threaten privacy laws nationwide

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Updates

EPIC Urges DOJ, FTC to Consider Data Protection and Consumer Privacy in Merger Guidelines

Mergers frequently involve the consolidation of data sets, which as EPIC explained “can entrench a firm’s dominant market position, raise barriers to entry for new and smaller firms, and exacerbate the effects of harmful consumer data practices.”

• Competition and Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Cybersecurity

• Data Protection

• Data Security

• Updates

New EPIC Report Delves into State AI Procurement

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Freedom of Information Act

• Government AI Use

• Open Government

• Updates

EPIC, NCLC, Public Knowledge Urge FCC to Help Legal Callers Escape from Illegal Call Traffic

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• Updates

EPIC Joins Letter Urging Senator Schumer to Address AI’s Climate Impacts

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Updates

Senate Confirms Anna Gomez to FCC

The U.S. Senate confirmed Anna Gomez to the Federal Communications Commission, ending an unprecedented two-and-a-half years without a full FCC.

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Cybersecurity

• Data Protection

• Location Tracking

• Updates

EPIC Urges FCC to Prevent AI Misuse of Video Conferencing Data From Callers with Disabilities

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Updates

EPIC, Bipartisan Coalition of Civil Society Groups Call Out Government’s Failure to Propose Meaningful Reform of Warrantless Surveillance Authorities

EPIC joined a bipartisan coalition of civil liberties organizations in underscoring the need for significant reform to warrantless government surveillance activities ahead of a meeting with Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Avril Haines and other senior intelligence officials on September 7 to discuss Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

• FISA Section 702

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Joins Call for FTC to Investigate YouTube’s Tracking and Targeting of Children

EPIC has joined a letter by Fairplay and the Center for Digital Democracy calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate new research indicating that YouTube and Google are tracking and targeting ads at viewers of "made for kids" videos—an apparent violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act and Google's 2019 settlement with the FTC.

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Updates