This bill is dangerous.
It does not protect privacy. It lets Big Tech and Telecom do anything they want with your data.
And it blows up all state and many federal privacy laws that we already have.
Most dangerously, it may nuke all state civil rights laws.
Here are some examples:
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On Wednesday, EPIC Counsel Tom McBrien spoke at the National Association of Attorneys General’s Annual Conference on a panel about the data-driven pricing ecosystem. Learn more about EPIC’s efforts to combat surveillance pricing here: epic.org/issues/consu...
On Monday, EPIC filed an amicus brief arguing that the Virginia city of Norfolk’s use of Flock’s Automated License Plate Reader system creates a warrantless mass surveillance program and constitutes an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Your grocery bill should not be based on the personal data companies collect about you.
Large retailers claim digital price labels reduce costs, but they can also enable surveillance pricing that charges people more.
“‘Americans do not consent to biometric data collection simply by walking down a public street, entering a café, or standing in a crowd,’ the senators told Zuckerberg. Yet, the deployment of this technology would appear to do exactly that…”
In a comment submitted to HHS last week, EPIC urged the Agency to prioritize privacy in the adoption of all technologies used in clinical settings.
“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
BIG IN THE 4A WORLD: The Supreme Court has granted cert in Chatrie, the geofence warrant case, to decide the following Q: "Whether the execution of the geofence warrant violated the Fourth Amendment." (I assume this includes both whether a "search" happened and whether the warrant was lawful.)
That would be @lizagoitein.bsky.social
It’s been clear for years now that anonymized cellphone location data could produce this kind of information, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised someone made a tool to sell this capability to LEOs.
Big Tech firms have been complaining about the “patchwork” of state laws ever since Californians adopted their landmark privacy law in 2020, Alan Butler writes. Trump's AI executive order is thus an escalation of a fight that has been brewing for years.
President Trump's Executive Order attempting to stop states from regulating AI is "exactly the opposite of what our country needs right now," said EPIC Executive Director @alanindc.bsky.social.
A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF
It’s a sign of the times that the only Americans who will be able to obtain damages for constitutional violations are these corrupt Senators whose rights weren’t violated at all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
And anyone curious to read more should see Judge Hollander’s decision from April in the SSA / DOGE case: www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
Total nonsense and also that’s not what SCOTUS said in Spokeo or in Transunion! Invasion of privacy is a concrete harm at common law, they even mention it specifically!
Why do you assume that a wrongful death action against an officer would have to be based on a violation of constitutional rights? Can’t they file an FTCA wrongful death claim?
My biggest concern about TikTok being sold to Trump-aligned American investors is that, at this point, there is far more cause for alarm from domestic surveillance than from foreign adversaries.
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Listen to EPIC Executive Director Alan Butler's (@alanindc.bsky.social's) full testimony: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
#DataPrivacy #DataProtection #Congress
This afternoon, EPIC Executive Director Alan Butler (@alanindc.bsky.social) will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the importance of strong federal data regulations to protect the privacy of American consumers.
➡️ Tune in at 2:30 pm ET: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...
The Senate just passed my bill by UC to release this report to the public, to end this cover-up by CISA. Now the House needs to pass my bill so the public can see how shockingly insecure our phone system is. Then the government must hold phone companies accountable for failing cybersecurity 101.
Interested in the First Amendment, the FCC, and telecom law? The new edition of Jerry Kang's, @alanindc.bsky.social's, and my Communications Law and Policy casebook is freely available. It's aimed at students, but may be of interest to practitioners, profs, journalists, and others too!
lifetime suspects without any basis of suspicion
Brandi Collins-Dexter, an intellectual and an activist, will be missed first and foremost by her family and friends, but also by overlapping communities of scholars and advocates. Her work was brilliant, sharp, funny, empathetic, prescient. I regret that we won't benefit from more of it.
There must be zero compliance with this. Patient confidentiality is the heart and soul of care. Care without confidentiality isn’t care at all. No “but our hands are tied, we need federal funding.” There must be a brick wall. Confidentiality is a no-compromise zone.
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