EPIC – Electronic Privacy Information Center

EPIC, Consumer Federation of America (CFA), and Fairplay submitted comments on Monday in response to the Colorado Department of Law’s rulemaking for the state’s recently-passed

“The law requires human review only when it is ‘commercially reasonable,’ but that vague standard concerns both companies worrying it will require a lot of reassessments and consumer groups fearing it will allow businesses to avoid reviews in most circumstances. Kara Williams, an attorney for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the repeated use of that term and of...

“’We have had a massive proliferation in online tracking and profiling in the last few decades,’ said Sara Geoghegan, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which filed a brief supporting Salazar. ‘We don’t have a general, federal comprehensive privacy law. But we do have this specific law that protects video viewing habits.’”

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On October 20, 2026, EPIC filed an amicus brief in Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota urging the S...

“Paramount argued that expanding the term ‘consumer’ to include someone purchasing non-video services from a site could create far-reaching problems for non-video retailers that host videos on their websites.”

“But Tom McBrien, legal counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said those concerns are ‘really, really overblown.’”

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