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ICE’s Privacy Impact Assessment on Surveillance Technologies is an Exercise in Disregarding Reality  

A recent Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) published by the DHS in 2022 details ICE Homeland Security and Investigations’ use of several categories of surveillance technologies. The PIA outlines ICE’s narrow conception of a “reasonable expectation of privacy” that allows the agency to conduct broad surveillance without judicial oversight.

October 5, 2023 Kiran Wattamwar, EPIC IPIOP Clerk
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The Atlantic Festival

EPIC Executive Director Alan Butler will participate in a roundtable discussion as a part of The Atlantic Festival, an annual live and virtual event hosted by The Atlantic in D.C.

28 Sep. 8:15 AM EDT

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Outsourced & Automated: How AI Companies Have Taken Over Government Decision-Making

Building on two years of state contracting research, EPIC publishes new report on the oft-forgotten world of government AI procurement.

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