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Caroline Anders

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public policy master’s student @Georgetown, fellow @EPICprivacy | past lives: @thomsonreuters, @semafor, @washingtonpost | always: @idsnews

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EPIC @epic.org · 06/08/2026
Huge news in tech accountability: a judge today rejected TikTok, Meta, and Google’s argument that using surveillance data to behaviorally profile minors is First Amendment-protected speech. As a result, California’s SB 976 lives to regulate feeds another day.
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Judges Sides with EPIC and AG, Telling Google, TikTok, and Meta Their Addictive Social Media Features Are Not 1A Speech
Big Tech’s overbroad arguments that their addictive social media features are protected speech were dealt a major blow in an order issued Thursday in the combined TikTok, Meta, and Google v.…
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EPIC @epic.org · 21/07/2026
JUST RELEASED: Employers are increasingly using workplace surveillance, AI, and worker data not just to monitor productivity—but to undermine worker organizing. In a new white paper with the National Institute for Workers' Rights, EPIC examines the rise of algorithmic unionbusting. 🧵
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Who’s Got the Power? Restoring Worker Power in the Age of Algorithmic Unionbusting
EPIC and the National Institute for Workers’ Rights’ white paper, Who’s Got the Power? Restoring Worker Power in the Age of Algorithmic Unionbusting, examines how employers increasingly use…
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EPIC @epic.org · 04/06/2026
Today, the MA House passed the Massachusetts Consumer Data Privacy Act, which includes crucial consumer protections including data minimization provisions and a private right of action. EPIC applauds Massachusetts lawmakers’ decision to prioritize Bay Staters’ privacy by passing this landmark bill.
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EPIC @epic.org · 02/06/2026
🚨Tomorrow at 10:15 a.m., EPIC Deputy Director and Policy Director @caitrionafitz.bsky.social will testify before a subcommittee of House Energy and Commerce about the recently introduced SECURE Data Act, which EPIC strenuously opposes.
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Caitriona Fitzgerald @caitrionafitz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The SECURE Data Act is not a serious effort at tackling the urgent privacy crisis facing this country. It is weaker than many existing state laws (the very state laws that it would wipe off the books with its broad preemption provision). Some examples:
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EPIC @epic.org · 13/04/2026
EPIC is proud to join 70+ organizations in calling on Meta to halt and publicly disavow its plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. We don't consent to this profound invasion of privacy, and you shouldn't either.
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EPIC joins ACLU’s ‘Eyewear, Not Spyware!’ campaign to fight Meta’s surveillance glasses
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EPIC @epic.org · 08/04/2026
Last week, President Trump issued an executive order asserting a radical expansion of federal power over mail-in voting. The order directs DHS to compile lists of citizens over 18 residing in each state—an ominous tactic for which the federal government lacks both legal authority and reliable data.
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EPIC @epic.org · 22/01/2026
More than 70 organizations have joined EPIC, @consumerfed.bsky.social, and @fairplayforkids.bsky.social to endorse our People-First Chatbot Bill, a crucial step forward in providing meaningful protections for all chatbot users.
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EPIC @epic.org · 21/01/2026
NEW: Today, EPIC published a report detailing the health privacy crisis in which our data is collected and used to profile us, manipulate our behavior, and charge us more for care. Read “Beyond HIPAA: Reimagining How Privacy Laws Apply to Health Data to Maximize Equity in the Digital Age” here:
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Beyond HIPAA: Reimagining How Privacy Laws Apply to Health Data to Maximize Equity in the Digital Age
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…
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EPIC @epic.org · 16/01/2026
📣Yesterday, EPIC Counsel Kara Williams testified in support of the New York AI Act (S1169A), which would prohibit algorithmic discrimination in housing, employment, and healthcare by requiring companies to disclose when they’re using AI to make sensitive decisions about consumers’ lives. Read more:
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EPIC Testifies in Support of New York AI Act
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