Tag: Children's Privacy
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EPIC Urges Northern District of California to Reject NetChoice’s Request to Enjoin California Law to Regulate Addictive Feeds for Minors
December 11, 2024
On December 10, 2024, EPIC submitted an amicus brief in NetChoice v. Bonta, an important case about whether the First Amendment prevents the government from regulating harmful, content-neutral features on online platforms. EPIC’s brief urged the court to deny the tech industry trade association NetChoice’s request for a preliminary injunction that seeks prevent California’s Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (SB 976) from going into effect by declaring the law unconstitutional.
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Age Assurance
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Children's Privacy
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Data Protection
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Platform Accountability & Governance
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Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
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The First Amendment
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Updates
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EPIC Urges NY Attorney General To Center Data Minimization and Age Determination Best Practices in Rulemaking for NY SAFE for Kids Act
October 1, 2024
Yesterday EPIC submitted comments with the Center for Digital Democracy urging the New York Attorney General to center privacy and age determination best practices in its rulemaking to implement the New York SAFE for Kids Act.
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Age Assurance
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Children's Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Minimization
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Data Protection
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Platform Accountability & Governance
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Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
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The First Amendment
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Updates
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U.S. Sues TikTok for Significant Child Privacy Violations
August 8, 2024
This week the Department of Justice sued TikTok for “flagrantly violating” the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (“COPPA Rule”), and a FTC Consent Order from 2019 as a result of previous COPPA and FTC Act violations.
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Children's Privacy
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Data Protection
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Privacy Laws
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U.S. Privacy Laws
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Updates
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EPIC and 48 Civil Society Organizations Send Joint Statement to New EU Presidency to Withdraw CSA Regulation that Would Break Encryption.
July 2, 2024
EPIC and 48 civil society organizations sent a joint statement to the new president of the EU reiterating our concerns over the proposed
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Cybersecurity
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Data Protection
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Encryption
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International Privacy
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Updates
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EPIC Urges UK Department for Education to Consider Privacy and Safety of Transgender Children in New Guidance
March 13, 2024
On March 12, EPIC submitted comments to the UK Department for Education regarding its draft consultation on gender questioning kids. The Draft Consultation is meant to guide schools and colleges in England on policies regarding requests by transgender children to socially transition, such as name and pronoun changes.
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Data Protection
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International Privacy
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Student Privacy
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Updates
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EPIC Applauds FTC’s Modernization of COPPA Rule, Recommends Improvements to Curb Behavioral Advertising and Protect Privacy for Children Online
March 12, 2024
In comments filed yesterday with the FTC, EPIC applauded the Commission’s efforts to modernize the COPPA Rule and introduced several recommendations to improve the efficacy of the proposed changes to the Rule.
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Children's Privacy
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Consumer Privacy
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Cybersecurity
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Data Protection
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Data Security
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Online Advertising & Tracking
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Updates
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FTC Proposes Rules to Strengthen Children’s Privacy Law
December 21, 2023
The Federal Trade Commission released a notice of proposed rulemaking this week introducing major changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rule.
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Children's Privacy
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Data Protection
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Updates
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EPIC Urges the Department of Education to Invest in Strong Privacy Safeguards when Funding EdTech through Seedlings to Scale
November 20, 2023
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.
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Children's Privacy
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Data Protection
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Government AI Use
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Student Privacy
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Updates
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EPIC Urges NTIA to Back Data Minimization, Address Wide Range of Harms to Minors Online
November 17, 2023
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.
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Children's Privacy
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Commercial AI Use
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Minimization
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Data Protection
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Student Privacy
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Updates
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EPIC, Coalition Back FTC’s Move to Bar Meta From Monetizing Children’s Data
June 13, 2023
EPIC, the Center for Digital Democracy, Fairplay, US PIRG, and 30 other organizations today sent a letter to the FTC supporting the Commission's efforts to modify and strengthen its 2020 privacy order against Meta.
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Children's Privacy
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Data Protection
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Updates
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