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NSO Group Liable Under CFAA for Hacking WhatsApp Servers, NSO Attorneys Sanctioned for Discovery Misconduct

December 23, 2024
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
Anti-Spyware Coalition Sends Letter to European Union to Prosecute Illegal Hacking of Journalists and Activists in Serbia

December 20, 2024

On December 19, EPIC joined 50 civil society organizations urging major European Union (“EU”) institutions to take action to stop the Serbian Authorities’ illegal use of spyware to target journalists, activists, and members of civil society.
- Data Protection
- Intelligence Surveillance
- International Privacy
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
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
EPIC, Coalition Urge EU Polish Presidency to Prioritize Action Against Spyware Misuse

December 13, 2024

EPIC, alongside 13 civil society organizations, has sent a joint letter to the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, urging them to prioritize decisive action against spyware misuse.
- Data Protection
- Intelligence Surveillance
- International Privacy
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Urge the White House Office of Management and Budget to Halt DHS’s Harmful AI Systems

November 27, 2024

EPIC joined a coalition of over 140 organizations led by Just Futures Law to push The Office of Management and Budget to use its authority to stop the Department of Homeland Security’s use of non-conforming artificial intelligence systems to inform or make decisions regarding surveillance, deportation, and detention.
- AI in the Criminal Justice System
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Government AI Use
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Send Letter to DHS regarding $2 Million Contract with Paragon Solutions, Inc.

November 1, 2024
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
White House Publishes Memorandum and Framework for Governing the Use of AI in National Security

October 25, 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration issued a “Memorandum on Advancing the United States’ Leadership in Artificial Intelligence; Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fulfill National Security Objectives; and Fostering the Safety, Security, and Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence.”
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Government AI Use
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Demand Estimate of U.S. Persons’ Communications Incidentally Collected Under FISA Section 702

October 16, 2024

In a letter to the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the National Security Agency, a coalition of civil society organizations demanded the intelligence community publish the previously promised estimate of the number of U.S. persons’ communications collected “incidentally” under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
- FISA Section 702
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC Amicus: Foreign Spyware is Not Exempt from Prosecution Under the CFAA

July 31, 2024

EPIC urged the Ninth Circuit to recognize that the Northern District of California has jurisdiction to hear a case brought by foreign journalists whose devices were hacked using Pegasus, a spyware application produced by Israeli company NSO Group.
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Surveillance Oversight
- Wiretapping
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Call for Meaningful Guardrails for the use of AI in National Security Systems

July 23, 2024

EPIC joined several other organizations on a letter to urge the Biden Administration to establish meaningful standards for the use of AI in the national security context.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Government AI Use
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates

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