Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

Supreme Court Rules that Government Can Impose Age Verification Requirements on Porn Sites Subject Only to Limited Privacy Safeguards

June 27, 2025

• Age Assurance

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• The First Amendment

• Updates

EPIC Urges Ninth Circuit to Rule Kids Privacy Law Doesn’t Violate Constitution

June 18, 2025

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Privacy Laws

• The First Amendment

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Updates

EPIC Applauds Vermont Governor Phil Scott for Signing Age-Appropriate Design Code into Law

June 12, 2025

This afternoon, Governor Phil Scott signed the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) into law. The Vermont AADC protects kids’ privacy, enhances kids’ autonomy, and ensures their online safety by prohibiting abusive data and design practices. The law will take effect Jan. 1, 2027.

• Age Assurance

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Minimization

• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Privacy Laws

• Social Media Privacy

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Updates

EPIC Applauds Passage of Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code

May 29, 2025

Today, the Vermont Legislature passed the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). The Vermont AADC protects kids’ privacy, enhances kids’ autonomy, and ensures their online safety by prohibiting abusive data and design practices. The bill now awaits the Governor’s approval.

• Age Assurance

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Online Advertising & Tracking

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Privacy Laws

• Social Media Privacy

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Updates

CalMatters: California regulator weakens AI rules, giving Big Tech more leeway to track you

May 7, 2025

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Commercial AI Use

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Data Minimization

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Online Advertising & Tracking

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Privacy Laws

• Proposed U.S. Legislation

• Social Media Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• News

Ninth Circuit To Hear Oral Argument in Case About Whether Algorithms Directed to Induce Habit-Forming Behavior Are Protected Speech

April 2, 2025

• Age Assurance

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• The First Amendment

• Analysis

Judge in California Age-Appropriate Design Code Case Gets the First Amendment Wrong—Again

March 14, 2025

Yesterday, a federal judge issued a second preliminary injunction against California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code (“CAADC”). The judge's First Amendment analysis flouted directions from the Ninth Circuit and the Supreme Court to more critically examine Big Tech’s demands for broad relief from regulation. The decision erroneously questions the constitutionality of every law giving kids special protections online—including the long-standing Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).

• Age Assurance

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Privacy Laws

• The First Amendment

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Analysis

Vermont Senate Passes Age-Appropriate Design Code

March 14, 2025

Yesterday the Vermont Senate passed Senate Bill 69, the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (Vermont AADC), on a bipartisan 25-5 vote. Last month EPIC testified in support of the bill and submitted additional written testimony.

• Age Assurance

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Minimization

• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• Social Media Privacy

• Updates

EPIC-Led Group of Law and Technology Experts Urges Ninth Circuit to Rule that Social Media Companies’ Addictive Technology Is Not Protected Expression

March 7, 2025

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• The First Amendment

• Updates

Tech Policy Press: Can States Restrict Online Content in the Name of Protecting Children? The Supreme Court Will Weigh In.

March 7, 2025

• Age Assurance

• Children's Privacy

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

• News