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EPIC Signs Coalition Letter Seeking to Preserve Independent Agencies

February 28, 2025
- Data Protection
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Wiretapping
- Updates
Apple Pulls Encrypted Cloud Services and Rejects United Kingdom Request to Create Backdoors to Encrypted Servers

February 28, 2025

Encryption is at risk in the United Kingdom. On February 7, it was reported that the United Kingdom sent notices to Apple requesting blanket capability to view fully encrypted material across Apple’s customer base,
- Cybersecurity
- Encryption
- Surveillance Oversight
- Wiretapping
- Updates
FCC Initiates Rulemaking to Secure Government Wiretap System in Response to Salt Typhoon Breach

January 17, 2025

On January 16, 2025, FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel released a Declaratory Ruling and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) "Protecting the Nation’s Communications Systems from Cybersecurity Threats",
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Surveillance Oversight
- Wiretapping
- Updates
FCC Signals Possible Update to Wiretap Regulations in Light of Massive Breach

December 20, 2024
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Encryption
- Surveillance Oversight
- Wiretapping
- Updates
Lawfare: CALEA Was a National Security Disaster Waiting to Happen

November 13, 2024
- Cybersecurity
- Data Security
- Encryption
- Wiretapping
- News
Boston Globe: ‘The law needs to catch up’: Secret recordings by police before Mass. high court in test of wiretap law

September 5, 2024
- Surveillance Oversight
- Wiretapping
- News
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 Amicus: People Retain a Privacy Interest in the Data on Lost Phones

June 3, 2024

EPIC and a coalition urged the 9th Circuit to find that when a person loses their cell phone, they do not lose a privacy interest in the digital contents of that phone.
- Fourth Amendment
- Privacy Laws
- Surveillance Oversight
- Wiretapping
- Updates
Comments of EPIC in re the Federal Trade Commission’s Proposed Order & Settlement with Global Tel*Link

December 22, 2023
- AI in the Criminal Justice System
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Location Tracking
- Surveillance Oversight
- Wiretapping
- APA Comments

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