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OMB Publishes Draft Guidance Implementing Procedural Requirements for Agencies Developing, Using, and Procuring AI

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released draft guidance outlining federal agencies’ obligations and suggested actions around the responsible development, use, and procurement of AI technologies. The OMB guidance establishes new agency roles and resources for managing government AI systems; requires agencies to build internal processes, strategies, and capacity to increase their use and procurement of responsible AI; and sets out minimum AI risk management practices that most executive agencies are expected to follow.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Data Protection
- Government AI Use
- Government Databases
- Government Records & Privacy
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC’s Jake Wiener Testifies Before DC Council on Electronic Monitoring

EPIC Counsel Jake Wiener will testify today before the DC Council on proposed changes to the electronic monitoring of people in the criminal justice system.
- Data Protection
- Government Databases
- Location Tracking
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC and ACLU Urge NIST to Advance Privacy in Digital Identity Guidelines
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Government AI Use
- Government Databases
- 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
EPIC, Coalition Call on DEA to End Illegal National License Plate Reader Program

EPIC joined a diverse coalition of civil society groups to urge the DEA to end the National License Plate Reader Program.
- Government Databases
- Privacy in Public
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Urge HHS to Abandon Database Tracking HIV PrEP Users

Rights urged the agency to reverse plans that would require recipients of free HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to submit information to a database maintained by HHS.
- Data Protection
- Government Databases
- Health Privacy
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Call for ICE to Cancel Contract with LexisNexis for Invasive Surveillance Databases

In a letter signed by more than 80 immigrant rights, racial justice, government accountability, human rights, and privacy organizations, EPIC and coalition members called upon ICE not to renew a $22 million contract for a suite of surveillance services.
- Government Databases
- Surveillance Oversight
- Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance
- Updates
EPIC Urges GSA to Prevent Privacy Harms from New Fraud Prevention Tools on Login.gov
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Government Databases
- Government Records & Privacy
- Screening & Scoring
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
Sen. Wyden Reveals State Department Gives Law Enforcement Unfettered Access to Sensitive Data from 145 Million Americans
- Government Databases
- Open Government
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
CBP Compiles Massive Amounts of Travelers’ Data Through Border Seizures
- Government Databases
- Surveillance Oversight
- Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance
- Updates

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