{
  "id": 1752,
  "url": "https://epic.org/epic-commends-california-for-protecting-user-privacy-and-speech-in-proposed-age-assurance-rules",
  "title": "EPIC Commends California For Protecting User Privacy and Speech in Proposed Age Assurance Rules",
  "summary": "Yesterday, EPIC filed comments in response to the California Department of Justice’s proposed rules to implement the Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act (SB 976). EPIC commended California for the proposed rules, which align strongly with the privacy- and speech-protective principles for age assurance implementation that EPIC urged the state to follow in a comment submitted last year. In this latest round of comments, EPIC recommended additional tweaks to further enhance privacy ",
  "authors": "Megan Iorio",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "privacy-surveillance,children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-01T21:22:54.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:04:12.223Z",
  "source_slug": "epic",
  "source_name": "EPIC",
  "source_homepage": "https://epic.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/1752",
  "original_url": "https://epic.org/epic-commends-california-for-protecting-user-privacy-and-speech-in-proposed-age-assurance-rules",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}