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EPIC Tells Fourth Circuit That School Officials Working With Police Cannot Search Student Cell Phones Without Warrants

EPIC has filed an amicus brief urging the Fourth Circuit to recognize that a school working in conjunction with a police officer cannot search a student cell phone without a warrant.
- Data Protection
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy Laws
- Student Privacy
- Updates
O.W. v. Carr et al.
- Data Protection
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy Laws
- Student Privacy
- Amicus Briefs
EPIC Urges Appeals Court to Require Police to Obtain Search Warrants Before Conducting Months-Long Recordings of People’s Homes
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy in Public
- Privacy Laws
- 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
ComputerWorld: ACLU, public defenders push back against Google giving police your mobile data
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy Laws
- News
EPIC Urges Colorado Supreme Court to Rule Reverse Keyword Warrants are Unconstitutional, Points Toward Effects on Abortion Rights
- Access to Information
- Consumer Privacy
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy Laws
- Web Scraping
- Updates
Seymour v. Colorado

Whether reverse keyword search warrants violate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Colorado state constitution.
- Access to Information
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy Laws
- Amicus Briefs
EPIC Urges PCLOB to Investigate the Use of Section 702 in Cybersecurity Investigations
- Fourth Amendment
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates
EPIC Urges FTC to Regulate Surveillance Tech Companies Using Police as Promoters

EPIC urged the agency to incorporate the full scope of the Endorsement Guides into its rule, and also urged the Commission to make explicit that companies are liable for violations of the Endorsement Guides made by police promoters.
- Big Data
- Consumer Privacy
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy in Public
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- Updates

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