Tag: Platform Governance

  • 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.

    • Age Assurance

    • Children's Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • The First Amendment

    • Updates

  • 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.

    • Age Assurance

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • The First Amendment

    • Updates

  • Far From a Punt, SCOTUS’s NetChoice Decision Crushes Big Tech’s Big Litigation Dreams

    July 16, 2024

    The Supreme Court's decision in the NetChoice cases is a huge blow to Big Tech’s litigation strategy of requesting the broadest possible relief from regulation based on nothing more than vibes. 

    • Children's Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Privacy Laws

    • The First Amendment

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Analysis

  • EPIC Joins More than 200 Organizations Urging Tech Platforms to Combat AI Election Disinformation

    April 9, 2024

    Today, EPIC and a coalition of over 200 civil society organizations sent a letter to leading platform companies like Meta, X, and Tiktok urging them to strengthen their efforts to protect elections from AI disinformation.

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Democracy & Free Speech

    • Updates

  • Murthy v. Missouri and the Threat of Election Disinformation

    March 21, 2024

    As the 2024 U.S. Presidential election heats up, we’re returning to the thorny problem of election disinformation through the lens of content moderation and the recent Supreme Court case, Murthy v. Missouri.

    • Anonymity

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Democracy & Free Speech

    • Online Harassment

    • Analysis

  • European Commission Publishes Interactive Summary of Platform Content Moderation Data

    February 1, 2024

    The European Commission has published an interactive dashboard that summarizes data on content moderation decisions from multiple online platform providers.

    • Access to Information

    • Data Protection

    • Democracy & Free Speech

    • Enforcement of Privacy Laws

    • International Privacy

    • Online Harassment

    • Updates