Tag: Platform Governance

  • To protect kids online, don’t ban them from social media. Regulate design.

    April 30, 2026

    Many state bills do not focus on regulating tech companies’ harmful design practices but instead on blocking kids’ access to social media and other apps unless they get parental consent. This is not an effective way to protect kids online.

    • Age Assurance

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Cybersecurity

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Privacy Laws

    • Section 230

    • Social Media Privacy

    • The First Amendment

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Analysis

  • EPIC Leads Group of Law & Technology Scholars in Rebutting Social Media Companies’ Arguments that Surveillance-Based Feeds Are Constitutionally-Protected Speech

    March 10, 2026

    EPIC and a group of law and technology scholars have filed an amicus brief defending California’s regulation of addictive feeds, Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (SB 976), against Big Tech’s latest constitutional challenge to the law. The three new lawsuits—filed by TikTok, Meta, and Google—claim that tech companies’ use of surveillance data to behaviorally profile minors is speech protected by the First Amendment.

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • The First Amendment

    • Updates

  • EPIC Testifies in Support of Michigan Kids Code

    March 5, 2026

    EPIC’s testimony explained why the MI Kids Code model is the right approach to mitigate harms that kids face online.

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Updates

  • EPIC Testifies in Support of New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code

    February 20, 2026

    The New Jersey Age-Appropriate Design Code (NJ AADC) advanced yesterday out of the General Assembly Committee on Science, Innovation and Technology. EPIC Counsel Suzanne Bernstein testified in support of the NJ AADC during yesterday’s Committee hearing, recommending ways to further strengthen the bill.

    • Age Assurance

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Updates

  • EPIC Model Platform Design Legislation Introduced in Georgia and Kansas

    February 12, 2026

    Lawmakers in Georgia and Kansas introduced bills based on EPIC’s Model Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) legislation this week to protect users from online harm and promote safer platform design. Kansas also introduced the People-First Chatbot Bill, a model bill released by EPIC, Consumer Federation of America, and Fairplay late last year.

    • Age Assurance

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Chatbots

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Privacy Laws

    • Social Media Privacy

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • South Carolina Becomes Fifth State to Enact an Age-Appropriate Design Code

    February 6, 2026

    This week South Carolina enacted the Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC), which went into effect immediately.

    • Age Assurance

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Privacy Laws

    • Social Media Privacy

    • U.S. Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • EPIC Encourages New Hampshire Lawmakers to Enact Age-Appropriate Design Code

    January 30, 2026

    Yesterday EPIC submitted written testimony to the New Hampshire House Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee supporting the passage of HB 1650, the New Hampshire Age-Appropriate Design Code (NH AADC). The NH AADC mirrors the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code, which is the strongest kids’ online safety law enacted to date.

    • Age Assurance

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Updates

  • Strong Age-Appropriate Design Code Bill Introduced in Wisconsin

    January 23, 2026

    Wisconsin legislators introduced an Age-Appropriate Design Code today, adding to the momentum in state legislatures across the country to address the privacy and safety harms kids face online.

    • Age Assurance

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Updates

  • In New Policy Statement, American Academy of Pediatrics Sounds Alarm about Impact of Harmful Platform Design for Kids

    January 20, 2026

    On January 20, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) stepped into the ongoing debate over how to keep kids safe online, recommending platform design regulation as a tentpole intervention. The AAP published an evidence-based Policy Statement on Digital Ecosystems, Children, and Adolescents whose recommendations include changing the ways online platforms are designed, which mirrors regulatory interventions promoted by EPIC. The AAP’s suggestions contradict industry talking points that promoting safe design practices for kids is misguided “technological solutionism” and that the burden of ensuring a healthy online experience should fall solely on parents.

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Updates

  • EPIC Recommends Strengthening Privacy- and Speech-Protective Age Assurance Principles in Comments to New York Attorney General

    December 2, 2025

    EPIC offered recommendations to further strengthen privacy- and speech-protective age principles in the rules that would make the law’s protections more effective.

    • Age Assurance

    • Children's Privacy

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Platform Governance Laws & Regulations

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates