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EPIC Comments to the UK ICO’s Office for the Consultation on the Draft Biometric Data Guidance
- Anonymity
- Data Protection
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Face Surveillance & Biometrics
- International Privacy
- Location Tracking
- Privacy in Public
- Surveillance Oversight
- Comments
NY 1: Voter rolls are becoming the new battleground over secure elections as amateur sleuths hunt fraud
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Voter Privacy
- News
KUNM: Voter rolls are becoming the new battleground over secure elections as amateur sleuths hunt fraud
- Cybersecurity
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Voter Privacy
- News
In Acheson Hotels v. Laufer, a Dangerous Opportunity for SCOTUS to Make it Harder to Establish Informational Standing

This morning, the Supreme Court will hear argument in an interesting—and, unfortunately, salacious—case about Article III standing. Acheson Hotels v. Laufer is about whether a person with disabilities has the right to sue a hotel when the hotel fails to provide accessibility information on their website as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA.
- Access to Information
- Article III Standing
- Consumer Privacy
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Privacy Laws
- Proposed U.S. Legislation
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Analysis
EPIC Again Urges FTC to Regulate Surveillance Companies Using Government Agencies for Endorsements

EPIC filed comments to the FTC on public sector endorsements of surveillance technology products.
- Competition and Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Updates
Generative AI and Elections: The Approaching Train Wreck

If you already find parsing through election ads and campaign speeches to get to the truth difficult, just wait for what is ahead with a 2024 election season filled with generative AI generated ads. Misinformation and disinformation already exist in our elections, but generative AI will exacerbate this problem, leaving voters flooded with information and unable to sort out what is real.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Election Security
- Government AI Use
- International Privacy
- Voter Privacy
- Web Scraping
- Analysis
AI Harm Report: Iowa’s Book Ban Implementation Illustrates How New Tech Enables Bad Policy

EPIC Senior Counsels Calli Schroeder and Ben Winters explain how generative AI takes the already-bad practice of book banning and makes it worse. Book banning is bad enough when it’s humans deciding which content should be censored. Leaving that determination to generative AI opens the door for a program—one that is unable to accurately read context—to irrationally limit what we are able to access and engage with.
- Access to Information
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Analysis
Bride et al. v. Snap et al.

Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prohibits (1) misrepresentation claims against internet companies who, after claiming in their terms of service that they would ban and reveal the identities of users who cyberbullied others, then refused to do so, and (2) products liability claims against the same defendants for designing an allegedly unsafe messaging product that allowed users to send anonymous, abusive messages to teens.
- Data Protection
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Amicus Briefs
EPIC Urges CBP Not to Collect Useless Social Media Information From Visa Holders

EPIC urged CBP not to collect social media information from current visa holders because this information is not useful and likely to result in biased denials of entry to the U.S.
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Privacy & Racial Justice
- Surveillance Oversight
- Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance
- Updates
EPIC Comments to DHS on Collecting Social Media Information in EVUS System

EPIC submitted comments opposing DHS's plan to collect social media information for continuous vetting of people who have already been granted a visa to visit the U.S. Social media information is of no value for vetting and prone to misinterpretation and biases.
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Privacy & Racial Justice
- Surveillance Oversight
- Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance
- APA Comments

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