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  • Harvard Ash Center: Understanding DOGE and Your Data

    March 31, 2025

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  • Rays-ing the Bar for Sunshine Week 2025

    March 17, 2025

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  • EPIC, Coalition Urge OMB to Rein in Agency Exploitation of the Data Broker Loophole in New Comments 

    December 17, 2024

    EPIC, the Brennan Center for Justice, Demand Progress, and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project were joined by several other organizations in comments submitted to the Office of Management and Budget yesterday urging it to push back against federal agency’s use of commercially available information (CAI) to get around key constitutional and statutory privacy protections. 

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  • EPIC, Coalition Call on OMB to Make Privacy Impact Assessments Work

    April 2, 2024

    EPIC submitted comments on our own and joined a coalition of groups urging OMB to update guidance to make PIAs work to protect privacy.

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  • Comments of EPIC to OMB on Privacy Impact Assessments

    April 2, 2024

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  • Coalition Comment to OMB on Privacy Impact Assessments

    April 2, 2024

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

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  • Here Comes the Sun(shine Week): Celebrating Some EPIC Open Government Wins

    March 14, 2024

    In celebration of Sunshine Week, EPIC is highlighting some open government successes from the past year.

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  • DHS OIG: CBP, ICE, and Secret Service Violated Privacy Policies, Failed to Develop Sufficient Policies Before Purchasing and Using Commercial Geolocation Data

    September 29, 2023

    A report by the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General (DHS OIG) revealed that CBP, ICE, and the Secret Service purchased and used commercial geolocation data in violation of their privacy policies, and that DHS components have failed to develop policies governing the purchase and use of location data.

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  • Epoch Times: Democrats Reject GOP Request for More Information on US Postal Service Surveillance of Conservatives

    December 7, 2022

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  • GAO Report: Federal Agencies Lack Senior Leadership to Effectively Implement Privacy Programs

    September 23, 2022

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