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EPIC Feedback to House Energy & Commerce Majority Privacy Working Group

April 15, 2025

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• Data Minimization

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EPIC Urges Federal Privacy Working Group to Center Data Minimization in Federal Privacy Law

April 8, 2025

EPIC's comments highlighted lessons learned from years of state-level advocacy on privacy laws and stated that a federal privacy law should provide a floor for states to build on top of rather than imposing a ceiling.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Minimization

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Privacy Daily: Durbin Claims CSAM Bill Bolsters Privacy, Despite Encryption Concerns 

March 11, 2025

• Children's Privacy

• Encryption

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Senators Markey, Cassidy Reintroduce COPPA 2.0

March 4, 2025

Today, Senators Markey and Cassidy reintroduced the Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act.

• Children's Privacy

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Senators Markey and Cassidy Reintroduce Children and Teen’s Online Privacy Protection Legislation

March 4, 2025

• Age Assurance

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• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

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EdWeek Market Brief: 7 Things to Know About Sweeping Social Media and K-12 Privacy Regulations Moving Through Congress

August 15, 2024

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NBC News: Why a landmark kids online safety bill that just passed the Senate is still deeply divisive

August 2, 2024

• Children's Privacy

• Data Protection

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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

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• Social Media Privacy

• The First Amendment

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Supreme Court Deals Blow to Big Tech’s Campaign to Immunize Itself from Regulation

July 1, 2024

The Supreme Court’s decision in the NetChoice cases is a huge loss for NetChoice. NetChoice's shoot-for-the-moon strategy failed miserably. The Big Tech trade group sought a pronouncement that platform design choices are wholly protected expression, but the Court refused to take the bait. Instead, the Court took the approach that EPIC advocated in its amicus brief: to the extent that the decision recognizes any protected editorial judgment for platforms’ decisions about whether and how to display content, it is narrowly confined to decisions that reflect a company’s judgements about the content, and does not include content-neutral design decisions.

• Children's Privacy

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• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

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The Record: With protections against AI bias removed, data privacy bill ‘impossible for civil society to support’

June 25, 2024

• AI Policy

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