EPIC v. DHS social media monitoring surveillance
EPIC, Coalition Oppose State Department's Plan to Collect Social Media Identifiers of Visa Applicants
EPIC, the Brennan Center and 55 privacy, civil liberties, and civil rights organizations submitted comments opposing the State Department's plan to collect social media identifiers from individuals applying for visas. The coalition warned that the proposal would "undermine First Amendment rights of speech, expression, and association." Social media monitoring raises serious privacy and civil liberties issues. EPIC previously opposed the State Department's expansion of social media collection as well as a similar proposal by the Department of Homeland Security. In EPIC v. DHS, a 2011 Freedom of Information Act case, EPIC uncovered the first agency plan to monitor social media.
May 30, 2018| Share:
