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EPIC, Coalition Urge OMB to Rein in Agency Exploitation of the Data Broker Loophole in New Comments

December 17, 2024

EPIC, the Brennan Center for Justice, Demand Progress, and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project were joined by several other organizations in comments submitted to the Office of Management and Budget yesterday urging it to push back against federal agency’s use of commercially available information (CAI) to get around key constitutional and statutory privacy protections.
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Brokers
- Fourth Amendment
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Open Government
- Privacy Impact Assessments
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
Fifth Circuit Rules that Geofence Warrants Are Inherently Unconstitutional

August 13, 2024
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Amicus: People Retain a Privacy Interest in the Data on Lost Phones

June 3, 2024

EPIC and a coalition urged the 9th Circuit to find that when a person loses their cell phone, they do not lose a privacy interest in the digital contents of that phone.
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- Wiretapping
- Updates
EPIC Tells Fourth Circuit That School Officials Working With Police Cannot Search Student Cell Phones Without Warrants

May 19, 2023

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.
- Data Protection
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy Laws
- Student Privacy
- Updates
EPIC Urges Appeals Court to Require Police to Obtain Search Warrants Before Conducting Months-Long Recordings of People’s Homes

May 19, 2023
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy in Public
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- 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
EPIC Urges Colorado Supreme Court to Rule Reverse Keyword Warrants are Unconstitutional, Points Toward Effects on Abortion Rights

January 26, 2023
- Access to Information
- Consumer Privacy
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy Laws
- Web Scraping
- Updates
EPIC Urges PCLOB to Investigate the Use of Section 702 in Cybersecurity Investigations

January 12, 2023
- Fourth Amendment
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC Urges FTC to Regulate Surveillance Tech Companies Using Police as Promoters

January 10, 2023

EPIC urged the agency to incorporate the full scope of the Endorsement Guides into its rule, and also urged the Commission to make explicit that companies are liable for violations of the Endorsement Guides made by police promoters.
- Consumer Privacy
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy in Public
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
Report: FBI Relied Heavily on Google Geofence Warrants in January 6 Investigations

November 30, 2022
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy in Public
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates

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