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New EPIC Report Sheds Light on Generative A.I. Harms

EPIC has just released a new report detailing the wide variety of harms that new generative A.I. tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and DALL-E pose! While many of these tools have been lauded for their capability to produce new and believable text, images, audio, and videos, the rapid integration of generative AI technology into consumer-facing products has undermined years-long efforts to make AI development transparent and accountable.
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Big Data
- Commercial AI Use
- Competition and Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Online Harassment
- Privacy & Racial Justice
- Updates
Supreme Court Avoids Major Section 230 Ruling in Case About Digital Platforms Recommending Terrorist Content

The Supreme Court has declined to address whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a law that encourages tech companies to moderate content on their platforms, immunizes companies like Google and Twitter from lawsuits alleging that their recommendation algorithms promoted terrorist activity. In a pair of decisions released today—Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Online Harassment
- Updates
EPIC, Coalition Urge Congress to Eliminate Funding for Failed “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

A letter from EPIC and a coalition to Congress calling for an end to ineffective and dangerous Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevent grant program.
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Privacy & Racial Justice
- 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
Comments of EPIC to OSTP on Criminal Justice Statistics Request for Information

EPIC's comments to OSTP in the form of a reading list of relevant work by EPIC and other organizations describing how law enforcement agencies regularly violate open records law, eschew transparency, and misuse data and statistics in ways that perpetuate harm
- 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 Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- APA Comments
National Bureau of Economic Research: Annual Report of Awards to NBER Affiliates, Spring 2023
- Census Privacy
- Data Protection
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Government Records & Privacy
- News
Public Interest Legal Foundation: Federal Court Rules States Cannot Punish Voter Roll Researchers
- Data Protection
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Voter Privacy
Celebrating Sunshine Week with Some EPIC Open Government Wins

On Freedom of Information Day, which coincides with Sunshine Week and James Madison's birthday, EPIC is highlighting some open government wins from the past year.
- Access to Information
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Freedom of Information Act
- Open Government
- Analysis
Court Cites EPIC Amicus Brief, Ruling for Plaintiffs in Voter Privacy Case
- Cybersecurity
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Election Security
- Voter Privacy
- Updates
Mother Jones: The Supreme Court’s Big Algorithm Fail
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Consumer Privacy
- Democracy & Free Speech
- News

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