BIG PRIVACY WIN: A federal judge has struck down the Trump administration’s unlawful attempt to meddle in elections, finding that “the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.”

PRESS RELEASE: Federal Judge Shuts Down Trump-Vance Voter Purge Database

WASHINGTON, D.C. –– A Trump-Vance administration attempt to unlawfully meddle in elections was struck down today, as a federal judge ordered the

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An article in the NYT today revealed Meta’s plan to take advantage of current political turmoil to sneak facial recognition into their smart glasses without enforcement bodies or privacy advocates noticing. But EPIC has noticed—and is ensuring that enforcers do, too. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

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Join EPIC on Wednesday, January 21 at 2 pm ET for a discussion on how surveillance and weak privacy laws threaten health equity and what we can do to build a more privacy-protective future. Register now: epic.org/beyond-hipaa-event

Yesterday, the FTC announced it had reached a $2.5 billion settlement with Amazon over the company’s manipulative subscription tactics. The $2.5 billion penalty, however, falls far short of Amazon’s gains from its unfair Prime subscription practices. epic.org/press-releas...

PRESS RELEASE: FTC Settles With Amazon Over Manipulative Subscription Practices Identified Years Ago by EPIC, Partner Orgs

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It is an absolute myth that humans want to be invasively monitored around the clock in exchange for the pleasure of being force fed commercials

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“Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.” 🙄

Read more about Google’s RTB as an urgent national security threat here. @johnnyryan.bsky.social and I filed a complaint with the FTC asking them to investigate this national security crisis as Google continues to broadcasts Americans’ sensitive data to foreign adversaries

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: Last year, @johnnyryan.bsky.social made a website for a fake company using a photo of Russian soldiers to purposely elicit suspicion. A US data broker offered him access to thousands of lists of American devices anyway. Many lists targeted US leaders and defense contractors. Our latest:

Our new investigation in @wired.com shows the danger of Google's huge RTB security problem We easily obtained Google RTB segment data about US national security personnel from a databroker -- despite posing as a foreign company that fetes Russian troops our fake website www.wired.com/story/google...

Google Ad-Tech Users Can Target National Security ‘Decision Makers’ and People With Chronic Diseases

Google enables marketers to target people with serious illnesses and crushing debt—against its policies—as well as the makers of classified defense technology, a WIRED investigation has found.

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From our new complaint v Google under new U.S. national security law. Para 50 has a table of sample Google segment IDs available for purchase: health, sexuality, finances, active military status, etc. @epic.org www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

🚨 EPIC and Enforce (@iccl.bsky.social) urged the FTC to investigate Google’s Real-Time Bidding (RTB) data in the first ever complaint under PADFAA, the new national security data law. 🧵 Read the complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...