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EPIC and ACLU Encourage NIST to Advance Privacy and Equity in Digital Identity Guidelines

October 9, 2024

This week EPIC and the ACLU submitted joint comments urging the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to center equity, accessibility, and privacy in the Second Draft of its Digital Identity Guidelines.
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Government Databases
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC Urges GSA to Minimize Use of SSNs, Limit Unnecessary Fraud Prevention Practices on Login.gov

June 13, 2024

EPIC urged the GSA to prioritize privacy, limit use of fraud controls to strictly necessary applications, and more aggressively protect SSNs on the government's single-sign-on service Login.gov.
- Government Databases
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Call on OMB to Make Privacy Impact Assessments Work

April 2, 2024

EPIC submitted comments on our own and joined a coalition of groups urging OMB to update guidance to make PIAs work to protect privacy.
- Government Databases
- Open Government
- Privacy Impact Assessments
- Surveillance Oversight
- 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
OMB Publishes Draft Guidance Implementing Procedural Requirements for Agencies Developing, Using, and Procuring AI

November 1, 2023

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released draft guidance outlining federal agencies’ obligations and suggested actions around the responsible development, use, and procurement of AI technologies.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

June 27, 2023

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

April 17, 2023
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Government AI Use
- Government Databases
- 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, Coalition Call on DEA to End Illegal National License Plate Reader Program

March 9, 2023

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

February 27, 2023

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 and Reproductive Privacy
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates

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