Age Assurance

EPIC Urges NY Attorney General To Center Data Minimization and Age Determination Best Practices in Rulemaking for NY SAFE for Kids Act

October 1, 2024

Yesterday EPIC submitted comments with the Center for Digital Democracy urging the New York Attorney General to center privacy and age determination best practices in its rulemaking to implement the New York SAFE for Kids Act.

• Age Assurance

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Minimization

• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• The First Amendment

• Updates

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

In Texas Age Verification Case, EPIC Urges Supreme Court to Adopt Framework that Can Differentiate Unconstitutional Online Censorship Laws from Constitutional Kids’ Privacy and Safety Laws

September 23, 2024

• Age Assurance

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• The First Amendment

• Updates

Age Assurance

July 22, 2024

To protect children online, various statutory and regulatory proposals recommend estimating or verifying users' ages. This can provide safety benefits but also, depending on the details of implementation, trigger constitutional or policy concerns. EPIC's work focuses on determining when age assurance is beneficial and when it is harmful.

• Age Assurance

• Platform Accountability & Governance

Tech Policy Press: The California Age Appropriate Design Code Act May Be the Most Important Piece of Tech Legislation You’ve Never Heard Of 

July 9, 2024

• Age Assurance

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Social Media Privacy

• The First Amendment

• News

SCOTUS Will Hear Texas Age-Gating Case

July 2, 2024

This morning, the Supreme Court granted cert in a case challenging the constitutionality of a Texas law that requires users to verify their ages before accessing websites where more than one-third of the available material is sexually explicit.

• Age Assurance

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Privacy Laws

• Proposed U.S. Legislation

• Social Media Privacy

• The First Amendment

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Updates

EPIC Urges Ninth Circuit to Reverse Decision That Threatens the Future of Privacy

December 21, 2023

Yesterday, EPIC filed an amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit to reverse a district decision striking down the California Age-Appropriate Design Code, or AADC, based on a dangerously overbroad reading of the First Amendment. As EPIC has previously explained, the decision below is so sweeping that it poses an existential threat to all privacy laws.

• Age Assurance

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Location Tracking

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Privacy Laws

• The First Amendment

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Updates