The First Amendment

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 Asks Third Circuit to Recognize that Not All Data Protection Laws are Unconstitutional

May 21, 2025

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Privacy Laws

• The First Amendment

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Updates

Atlas Data Privacy Corp., et al. v. We Inform LLC, et al.

May 20, 2025

Whether privacy laws violate the First Amendment?

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Data Protection

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• Privacy Laws

• The First Amendment

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Amicus Briefs

EPIC, Coalition Urge Congress to Include Privacy and Civil Liberties Protections In Any Future Counter-Drone Authority Legislation

May 20, 2025

EPIC, the Center for Democracy & Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the American Civil Liberties Union submitted a joint statement ahead of today’s Senate Hearing

• Drones & Aerial Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• The First Amendment

• Updates

EPIC Asks Federal Court to Rule that Narrow Regulation of Misleading Elections-Related Deepfakes Is Facially Constitutional

April 23, 2025

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• The First Amendment

• Updates

Kohls v. Bonta

April 23, 2025

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Platform Accountability & Governance

• The First Amendment

• Amicus Briefs

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

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