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  • Scraping for Me, Not for Thee: Large Language Models, Web Data, and Privacy-Problematic Paradigms

    February 27, 2025

    More than just hypocrisy (though that as well), the supposed reaction to DeepSeek’s model speaks to a troubling AI company argument—one that positions mass web scraping and large-scale data ingestion, sans consent, as a necessity, and an act in which only the companies themselves are entitled to partake.

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  • EPIC Comments to NIST on Managing the Risks of Misuse with AI Foundation Models

    September 11, 2024

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  • WBEZ Chicago: GOP-tilted websites showed where Illinois judges live despite a law that protects their privacy

    September 3, 2024

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  • Bloomberg Law: AI’s Data Appetite Is Huge. That’s a Problem for Privacy Laws

    July 24, 2024

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  • MediaPost: California Assembly Passes Bill Requiring Browser Developers To Offer Opt-Out Tool

    May 24, 2024

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  • Senate AI Roadmap Fails to Recognize or Address AI Harms

    May 15, 2024

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    May 14, 2024

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  • EPIC Comments to UK ICO Call for Views on “Consent or Pay” Business Models

    April 22, 2024

    By notice published March 6, 2024, the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (“UK ICO” or “the ICO”) has called for views regarding “consent or pay” business models (hereinafter “the Consultation”) to close on April 17, 2024.[1] This Consultation is intended to address an emerging business model where individuals are blocked from accessing a website unless they consent to their personal information being processed for the purpose of targeted advertising, or, as the ICO puts it, “pay a fee and not be tracked.”

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  • EPIC Urges the NTIA to Tackle Privacy Harms, Bias, and Regulatory Hurdles in New Comment on AI Model Openness

    March 28, 2024

    Yesterday, EPIC submitted comments to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in response to its request for comments on the risks and benefits of dual-use foundation models with widely available model weights, highlighting key privacy, bias, and regulatory hurdles that both closed and open AI models must overcome.

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  • MIT Technology Review: The Download: new AI regulations, and a running robot 

    March 19, 2024

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