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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.

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Big Data

• Commercial AI Use

• Competition and Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Online Harassment

• Privacy & Racial Justice

• Updates

Supreme Court Avoids Major Section 230 Ruling in Case About Digital Platforms Recommending Terrorist Content

The Supreme Court has declined to address whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law that encourages tech companies to moderate content on their platforms, immunizes companies like Google and Twitter from lawsuits alleging that their recommendation algorithms promoted terrorist activity. In a pair of decisions released today—Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh.

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Commercial AI Use

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Online Harassment

• Updates

EPIC, Coalition Urge Congress to Eliminate Funding for Failed “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

A letter from EPIC and a coalition to Congress calling for an end to ineffective and dangerous Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevent grant program.

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Privacy & Racial Justice

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Cautions OSTP on Data Transfers, Urges Differential Privacy

On March 30, EPIC submitted comments to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recommending several resources that might assist OSTP in fulfilling the aims of the "Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety" Executive Order.

• Access to Information

• AI in the Criminal Justice System

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Fourth Amendment

• Freedom of Information Act

• Government Databases

• Open Government

• Privacy & Racial Justice

• Privacy in Public

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Court Cites EPIC Amicus Brief, Ruling for Plaintiffs in Voter Privacy Case

• Cybersecurity

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Election Security

• Voter Privacy

• Updates

Appeals Court Says Police Can’t Ban Passenger in Traffic Stop from Livestreaming Based on Vague Officer Safety Concerns

The Fourth Circuit ruled today that livestreaming a traffic stop is protected First Amendment speech and that police cannot prevent a passenger in a stopped car from livestreaming a traffic stop based on a vague concern for officer safety.

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Agrees with EPIC and EFF: Government Cannot Hide Lethal Injection Company’s Name from Public Based on FOIA Exemption 4

• Access to Information

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Freedom of Information Act

• Open Government

• Updates

EPIC Urges Colorado Supreme Court to Rule Reverse Keyword Warrants are Unconstitutional, Points Toward Effects on Abortion Rights

• Access to Information

• Consumer Privacy

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy Laws

• Web Scraping

• Updates

EPIC to Supreme Court: Internet Companies Should Face Suits for Their Harmful Conduct

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Social Media Privacy

• Updates

Census Bureau Director Defends Use of Differential Privacy

• Big Data

• Census Privacy

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Updates