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FTC Announces $25 Million Fine Against Amazon for Kids Privacy Violations
Today the Federal Trade Commission announced a major enforcement action against Amazon, moving to fine the tech and retail giant $25 million and requiring updated data deletion practices.
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FTC Finds Amazon Ring Cameras Responsible for “Egregious Violations of Users’ Privacy,” Requires Data Deletion
An FTC order found that Amazon had allowed employees access to sensitive videos from indoor Ring cameras and failed to implement cybersecurity practices to prevent known breaches.
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EPIC, Coalition of Civil Liberties Groups Launch New Website on FISA Reform
EPIC and a bipartisan coalition of civil liberties organizations — Americans for Prosperity, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Demand Progress, Due Process Institute, Free Press Action, FreedomWorks, the Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Restore the Fourth, and Wikimedia Foundation — have launched a new website on the need for significant reform to the government surveillance ecosystem as part of any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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EPIC Awards Johnny Ryan, Beeban Kidron as EPIC International Privacy Champions
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Ireland Fines Meta €1.2 Billion, Orders Halt of Personal Data Transfers to U.S.
ompany to suspend transfers of personal data to the United States within five months, finding that Meta’s transfers violation the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation.
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Anna Gomez Nominated to Federal Communications Commission
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New EPIC Report Sheds Light on Generative A.I. Harms
EPIC has just released a new report detailing the wide variety of harms that new generative A.I. tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALL-E pose! While many of these tools have been lauded for their capability to produce new and believable text, images, audio, and videos, the rapid integration of generative AI technology into consumer-facing products has undermined years-long efforts to make AI development transparent and accountable.
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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EPIC Comments on EU Metaverse Vision
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Data Protection
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International Privacy
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International Privacy Laws
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Newly Released FISC Opinion Reveals FBI Misused FISA Section 702 to Search for Racial Justice Protestors, Activist Groups, and Political Campaign Donors
The FISC detailed the FBI’s “pattern of conducting broad, suspicionless queries” of information collected under Section 702, a sweeping warrantless foreign intelligence surveillance authority.
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EPIC Tells Fourth Circuit That School Officials Working With Police Cannot Search Student Cell Phones Without Warrants
EPIC has filed an amicus brief urging the Fourth Circuit to recognize that a school working in conjunction with a police officer cannot search a student cell phone without a warrant.
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Data Protection
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Student Privacy
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