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PRESS RELEASE: Report: Privacy Harms from AI Necessitate Robust Risk Assessments

June 25, 2025

Today, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) released Assessing the Assessments: Maximizing the Effectiveness of Algorithmic & Privacy Risk Assessments.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Online Advertising & Tracking
- Privacy Laws
- Risk Assessments
- Student Privacy
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
EPIC Launches Second Investigation Into Government Surveillance of Federal Workers

May 2, 2025

This week, EPIC filed FOIA requests investigating the federal government's alleged surveillance of civil servant communications.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Defeating the DOGE
- Surveillance Oversight
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
EPIC Urges California Privacy Protection Agency to Resist Industry Pressure to Weaken Draft Regulations

May 2, 2025

EPIC urges the CPPA to restore the regulations to their more privacy-protective earlier iterations.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Minimization
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Privacy Laws
- Risk Assessments
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
EPIC Joins Coalition Letter Urging California Privacy Agency to Advance ADMT Draft Regulations Despite Industry Pushback

April 16, 2025

CPPA weakened the draft regulations last month amid industry pressure.
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Minimization
- Data Protection
- Online Advertising & Tracking
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
EPIC Urges OSTP to Consider Full Range of Workplace Surveillance Harms

June 15, 2023

IC urged the Administration to "take a broad view of worker surveillance and consider the multiplicity of harms created by surveillance, both when it works as intended and when it goes off the rails."
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Data Protection
- Screening & Scoring
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
Illinois Supreme Court Grants Big Win for Illinois Citizens’ Privacy

February 17, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court issued its opinion in Cothron v. White Castle, a case involving Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act, a special privacy law that protects Illinois residents' control over their biometric information such as fingerprints, faceprints, iris scans, and other non-changeable biological information.
- Data Protection
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
EPIC and EFF Urge California Supreme Court to Review Lower Court Opinion Barring Plaintiffs’ Privacy Suit

January 3, 2023
- Article III Standing
- Consumer Privacy
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Urge Zoom to Abandon Emotion Recognition

May 13, 2022
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
HireVue, Facing FTC Complaint From EPIC, Halts Use of Facial Recognition

January 12, 2021
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Data Protection
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
Microsoft Developing Workplace Surveillance System to ‘Score’ Meeting Productivity

December 1, 2020
- Data Protection
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates

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