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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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  • 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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  • 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 Urges Appeals Court to Require Police to Obtain Search Warrants Before Conducting Months-Long Recordings of People’s Homes

    • Fourth Amendment

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  • EPIC Urges FCC to Lower Prices, Reduce Surveillance on Prison Telecommunications

    EPIC urged the FCC to lower the cost of prison phone and video calls, and regulate e-messaging systems.

    • Communications Privacy

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    • Location Tracking

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  • EPIC to NY City Council: Pass Bills Banning Facial Recognition in Businesses and Housing

    EPIC's Jake Wiener testified before the NY City Council in support of bills banning facial recognition use by business owners and landlords.

    • Face Surveillance & Biometrics

    • Surveillance Oversight

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  • New ODNI National Security Transparency Report Reveals Steady Increase in Section 702 Surveillance, Continued Warrantless Querying Issues

    On April 28, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released its Annual Statistical Transparency Report Regarding the Intelligence Community’s Use of National Security Surveillance Authorities, which shows a steady increase in targeting under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)—up to nearly 250,000 in 2022—and continued noncompliance with Congressional safeguards.

    • Intelligence Surveillance

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  • 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.

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  • EPIC Files Brief Supporting Class Fight Against Mass Surveillance of Money Transfer Customers

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  • EPIC, Coalition Call for Hearing on NYPD POST Act Violations

    EPIC and a coalition of civil rights, civil liberties, privacy, and community-based organizations have requestedthat the New York City Council hold a hearing on NYPD’s noncompliance with the POST Act.

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