Digital Library

EPIC, Coalition Urge the White House Office of Management and Budget to Halt DHS’s Harmful AI Systems

November 27, 2024

EPIC joined a coalition of over 140 organizations led by Just Futures Law to push The Office of Management and Budget to use its authority to stop the Department of Homeland Security’s use of non-conforming artificial intelligence systems to inform or make decisions regarding surveillance, deportation, and detention.

• AI in the Criminal Justice System

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Government AI Use

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

CBP’s Privacy Impact Assessment on Commercial Telemetry Data Highlights Urgent Need for PIA Reform

November 14, 2024

CBP’s PIA on CTD is extremely vague, years too late, and is a complete failure to comply with federal privacy regulations.

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Location Tracking

• Analysis

EPIC, Coalition Send Letter to DHS regarding $2 Million Contract with Paragon Solutions, Inc.

November 1, 2024

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EU Spyware Coalition Joint Statement

November 1, 2024

• Data Protection

• Intelligence Surveillance

• International Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

White House Publishes Memorandum and Framework for Governing the Use of AI in National Security

October 25, 2024

The Biden-Harris Administration issued a “Memorandum on Advancing the United States’ Leadership in Artificial Intelligence; Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Fulfill National Security Objectives; and Fostering the Safety, Security, and Trustworthiness of Artificial Intelligence.”

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Government AI Use

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC, Coalition Demand Estimate of U.S. Persons’ Communications Incidentally Collected Under FISA Section 702

October 16, 2024

In a letter to the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the National Security Agency, a coalition of civil society organizations demanded the intelligence community publish the previously promised estimate of the number of U.S. persons’ communications collected “incidentally” under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

• FISA Section 702

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Amicus: Foreign Spyware is Not Exempt from Prosecution Under the CFAA

July 31, 2024

EPIC urged the Ninth Circuit to recognize that the Northern District of California has jurisdiction to hear a case brought by foreign journalists whose devices were hacked using Pegasus, a spyware application produced by Israeli company NSO Group.

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Wiretapping

• Updates

Dada et al. v. NSO Group

July 31, 2024

computer related crimes such as accessing a protected computer without authorization, can be used by foreign plaintiffs to prosecute foreign defendants who exploit protected computers.

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Wiretapping

• Amicus Briefs

EPIC, Coalition Call for Meaningful Guardrails for the use of AI in National Security Systems

July 23, 2024

EPIC joined several other organizations on a letter to urge the Biden Administration to establish meaningful standards for the use of AI in the national security context.

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Government AI Use

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Comments of EPIC to PCLOB AI in Counterterrorism July 2024

July 3, 2024

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) submits these comments in response to the 2024 Request for Public Comment on the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Counterterrorism released by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (“PCLOB”) on May 23, 2024.

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Government AI Use

• Government Databases

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments