Children's Privacy

The Record: Judge: FTC can move forward with plans to impose tough new privacy restrictions on Meta 

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Social Media Privacy

• News

EPIC Urges the Department of Education to Invest in Strong Privacy Safeguards when Funding EdTech through Seedlings to Scale

In comments filed November 13th, EPIC urged the Department of Education to establish safeguards that guide the development and deployment of any AI technologies funded by the Seedlings to Scale program. The Department of Education filed a Request for Information asking for insight to guide its efforts in funding technology intended to improve educational outcomes for all students.

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

• Government AI Use

• Student Privacy

• Updates

EPIC Urges NTIA to Back Data Minimization, Address Wide Range of Harms to Minors Online

As children and teens continue spend so much of their lives online in recreational, social and educational settings, it has become clear that existing laws and regulations do not sufficiently protect minors from online harms. In the face of emerging risks from AI and other technologies, EPIC recommended that the NTIA center safeguards like data minimization or a ban on targeted advertising to minors in any of its future recommendations.

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Children's Privacy

• Commercial AI Use

• Data Protection

• Student Privacy

• Updates

EPIC Comments to the NTIA on RFC Regarding Youth Mental Health, Safety & Privacy Online

The NTIA should focus the Task Force’s efforts on the harmful design practices and extensive data collection that perpetuate commercial surveillance of children and teens. To address these issues, the NTIA and Task Force should center data minimization principles in any recommendations or guidance concerning products, services, and platforms used by minors.

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

Nasdaq: Snap Patent Keeps Data Out of Third-Party Hands 

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

• News

Tech Policy Press: Evaluating the Argument Over the California Age Appropriate Design Code Act 

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. Privacy Laws

• News

NetChoice v. Bonta: The Case That Threatens the Future of Privacy

Last month, a California district court judge enjoined enforcement of the state’s Age-Appropriate Design Code, or AADC, based on a dangerously overbroad reading of the First Amendment. The weaponization of the constitution in NetChoice v. Bonta should raise alarms for all privacy and consumer protection advocates. 

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Location Tracking

• Privacy Laws

• Student Privacy

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Analysis

NBC News: Amazon will use real user conversations to train Alexa’s AI model 

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Children's Privacy

• Commercial AI Use

• Consumer Privacy

• News

Judge Adopts Dangerously Overbroad View of First Amendment That Could Threaten Privacy Laws Nationwide

The case, brought by big tech advocacy group Netchoice, threatens the viability of existing and future privacy legislation, including efforts to minimize the amount of information tech companies collect and use for targeted advertising and surveillance.

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Privacy Laws

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• 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