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Paying for Iris Scans: AI-Fueled Surveillance Harms
February 6, 2025
Hype about AI research and development is driving companies to buy people’s data where they otherwise weren’t and, conversely, to sell people’s (including customers’ and users’) data where they otherwise wouldn’t. These practices are harmful already. And their acceleration by the AI craze is poised to rapidly increase data-sharing, -selling, and -monetization threats to privacy in the coming years. This enables the repeat exploitation of people’s data and causes especially pronounced harm to vulnerable people and communities.
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Commercial AI Use
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Data Protection
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Health and Reproductive Privacy
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Surveillance Oversight
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Analysis
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Spectrum News 1: Western N.Y. sheriff’s office among first in country to use iris scanning tech
January 13, 2025
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Government AI Use
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Surveillance Oversight
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News
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FedScoop: Customs and Border Protection is expanding its use of biometric iris recognition
December 3, 2024
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Surveillance Oversight
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News
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Senators Call on DHS to Investigate TSA’s use of Facial Recognition
November 21, 2024
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Surveillance Oversight
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Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance
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Updates
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MIT Technology Review: Inside Clear’s ambitions to manage your identity beyond the airport
November 20, 2024
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Surveillance Oversight
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Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance
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News
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EPIC Comments to CBP on Biometric Identity
October 29, 2024
EPIC submits these comments opposing CBP's revision and extension of this information collection, particularly the use of facial recognition technology.
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Surveillance Oversight
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Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance
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APA Comments
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EPIC Urges CBP to Pause its Expansion of Facial Recognition at the Border
October 28, 2024
This afternoon, EPIC submitted comments to Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) urging it to refrain from expanding the use of facial recognition technology as part of its Biometric Entry-Exit (BE-E) Program.
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Surveillance Oversight
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Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance
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Updates
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EPIC, Coalition Offer Recommendations to Strengthen Surveillance Technology Export Regulations
October 18, 2024
EPIC joined several other organizations in comments on the U.S. Commerce Department’s proposed rule to strengthen surveillance technology export regulations.
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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Civil Rights Commission Releases Report on the Federal Government’s Use of Facial Recognition Technology
September 21, 2024
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released the report The Civil Rights Implications of the Federal Use of Facial Recognition this week. The report detailed some of the risks of the federal government’s unfettered use of facial recognition technology.
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Privacy in Public
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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The Department of Transportation’s Underused Privacy Authority
September 9, 2024
Due to the rise of invasive airline data practices and facial recognition technology at airport gates, EPIC strongly encourages the DOT to use its unfair and deceptive enforcement authority to address harmful privacy practices.
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Consumer Privacy
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Surveillance Oversight
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Analysis
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