Publications

  • 2025 Annual Report

    October 5, 2026

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Cybersecurity

    • Data Protection

    • Democracy & Free Speech

    • Open Government

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Privacy Laws

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Publications

  • Explaining Surveillance Pricing and Other Data-Driven Pricing Practices

    August 20, 2026

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Surveillance Pricing

    • Publications

  • Who’s Got the Power? Restoring Worker Power in the Age of Algorithmic Unionbusting

    July 21, 2026

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Communications Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Face Surveillance & Biometrics

    • Worker Privacy

    • Publications

  • Good Luck Opting Out: Manipulative Design Patterns in Opt-Out Processes

    May 20, 2026

    • Communications Privacy

    • Competition and Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Brokers

    • Data Minimization

    • Online Advertising & Tracking

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Publications

  • EPIC’s Model Age-Appropriate Design Code

    February 5, 2026

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Online Advertising & Tracking

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Publications

  • Beyond HIPAA: Reimagining How Privacy Laws Apply to Health Data to Maximize Equity in the Digital Age

    January 21, 2026

    We face a health data privacy crisis. Unregulated digital technologies, mass surveillance, and weak privacy laws have created a health privacy crisis in which our health data is collected and used to profile us, manipulate our behavior, and charge us more for care. This crisis pushes people away from care, worsening our health and creating inequities. But a better, safer, and more privacy-protective future is possible.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Data Protection

    • Health and Reproductive Privacy

    • Publications

  • 2024 Annual Report

    December 23, 2025

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Cybersecurity

    • Data Protection

    • Democracy & Free Speech

    • Open Government

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Privacy Laws

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Publications

  • People-First Chatbot Bill

    December 10, 2025

    EPIC teamed up with Consumer Federation of America and Fairplay to develop the People-First Chatbot Bill aimed at making chatbots safer for all users.

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Chatbots

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Publications

  • The Fight to Protect Our Phones: A Multi-Prong Approach to Spyware Reform

    November 13, 2025

    The Fight for Our Phones shines a light on the threats posed by the remote deployment of spyware by government actors, without user knowledge, to facilitate complete access to and control of an infected device and outlines solutions to the spyware problem.

    • Cybersecurity

    • Encryption

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Wiretapping

    • Publications

  • Closing the Data Mines: Repairing Oversight, Preserving Rights

    November 6, 2025

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Publications