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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.
- Freedom of Information Act
- Government Databases
- Open Government
- Updates
Rays-ing the Bar for Sunshine Week 2025

March 17, 2025
- Access to Information
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Federal Advisory Committee Act
- Freedom of Information Act
- Open Government
- Privacy Impact Assessments
- Updates
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.
- Data Protection
- Freedom of Information Act
- Open Government
- Updates
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.”
- Freedom of Information Act
- Government Databases
- Open Government
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
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
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Brokers
- Freedom of Information Act
- Government AI Use
- Open Government
- Updates
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.
- 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
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
- Access to Information
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Freedom of Information Act
- Open Government
- Updates
EPIC Urges Administrative Conference to Recommend Sweeping Open Government Reforms

July 19, 2022
- Federal Advisory Committee Act
- Freedom of Information Act
- Open Government
- Privacy Impact Assessments
- Updates
In EPIC Settlement, DOJ Breaks Down Number of Location Data Requests in Five Districts from 2016-2019

April 5, 2022
- Data Protection
- Freedom of Information Act
- Location Tracking
- Open Government
- Updates
EPIC & EFF to D.C. Circuit: Agencies Cannot Withhold Contractor Names as “Commercial” Info Under the FOIA

March 30, 2022
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Face Surveillance & Biometrics
- Freedom of Information Act
- Government AI Use
- Open Government
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates

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