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  • EPIC’s Davisson Testifies in Congress on JFK Records Privacy Breach

    April 1, 2025

    The disclosure, which broke from normal screening procedures used by the National Archives, caused the release of hundreds of Social Security numbers of people named in the records who are still living.

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  • Rays-ing the Bar for Sunshine Week 2025

    March 17, 2025

    • Access to Information

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  • BREAKING: EPIC Sues OPM for Records on OPM’s Information Security and Employee Privacy Practices 

    March 3, 2025

    Last Friday, EPIC sued the Office of Personnel Management under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) after the agency failed to respond to EPIC’s requests for records concerning OPM’s information security and worker privacy practices. 

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  • DHS Releases Data Mining Report After EPIC FOIA Request

    January 2, 2024

    DHS publicly released the 2021 Data Mining Report after EPIC submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in June 2023 seeking the “2020 DHS Data Mining Report and all subsequent DHS data mining reports.”

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  • New EPIC Report Delves into State AI Procurement

    September 14, 2023

    Across the country, state and local agencies are outsourcing important government decisions to private companies and their AI tools—all without meaningful public input or oversight.

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

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  • EPIC Cautions OSTP on Data Transfers, Urges Differential Privacy

    April 6, 2023

    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.

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  • 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

    February 1, 2023

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  • EPIC Urges Administrative Conference to Recommend Sweeping Open Government Reforms

    July 19, 2022

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  • In EPIC Settlement, DOJ Breaks Down Number of Location Data Requests in Five Districts from 2016-2019

    April 5, 2022

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  • EPIC & EFF to D.C. Circuit: Agencies Cannot Withhold Contractor Names as “Commercial” Info Under the FOIA

    March 30, 2022

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