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EPIC Joins Coalition Letter Urging California Privacy Agency to Advance ADMT Draft Regulations Despite Industry Pushback

April 16, 2025

CPPA weakened the draft regulations last month amid industry pressure.
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Minimization
- Data Protection
- Online Advertising & Tracking
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
The New York Times: Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You.

April 9, 2025
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- Government Records & Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Workplace Privacy
- News
Is OPM More Interested in Surveillance than Privacy? Our Lawsuit Is Trying to Answer That

March 19, 2025

For 30 years, FOIA has been one of EPIC’s most valuable tools for holding government accountable to the people. In this post, we will look at EPIC’s latest FOIA lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to understand why EPIC filed this case and how the information we seek will lead to meaningful accountability.
- Cybersecurity
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Freedom of Information Act
- Government Records & Privacy
- Open Government
- Workplace Privacy
- Analysis
Seems a bit DOGE-y: Protecting Federal Worker Rights in an Era of AI-Driven Employment Decisions

March 6, 2025

In the last month and a half, the Trump Administration has systematically gutted the federal workforce. However, the Administration’s latest assault brings federal workers a new concern: that they will be fired by an algorithm. his blog post provides an overview of a federal worker’s rights when faced with termination, the problems with using automated decision-making tools to conduct terminations, and how those tools may violate worker’s rights.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Data Protection
- Government AI Use
- Screening & Scoring
- Workplace Privacy
- Analysis
The Washington Post: Judge denies temporary ban on DOGE access to private data

February 21, 2025
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Government Records & Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- Workplace Privacy
- News
EPIC Comments to Dutch DPA on Emotion Recognition Prohibition under EU AI Act

December 17, 2024

By notice published on October 31, 2024, the Netherlands’ Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (“AP”) sought input1 on its interpretation of the sixth prohibition of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (hereinafter the “AI Act”)2 which prohibits AI systems intended to identify or infer the emotions or intentions of natural persons (“emotion recognition systems”)3 in the areas of workplace or education institutions based on biometric data (“Prohibition F”).4
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Data Protection
- International Privacy
- Student Privacy
- Workplace Privacy
- Comments
Generating Harms

May 14, 2024
- Access to Information
- AI in the Criminal Justice System
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Children's Privacy
- Commercial AI Use
- Communications Privacy
- Competition and Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Cybersecurity
- Data Brokers
- Data Protection
- Data Security
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Election Security
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- Government AI Use
- Government Records & Privacy
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- International Privacy
- International Privacy Laws
- Online Harassment
- Privacy Laws
- Proposed U.S. Legislation
- Robocalls
- Screening & Scoring
- Social Media Privacy
- Student Privacy
- U.S. Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Web Scraping
- Workplace Privacy
EPIC Comments to White House OSTP on Automated Worker Surveillance

June 15, 2023

Comments from EPIC to the Office of Science and Technology Policy providing resources on automated worker surveillance
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Data Protection
- Screening & Scoring
- Workplace Privacy
- Comments
EPIC Urges OSTP to Consider Full Range of Workplace Surveillance Harms

June 15, 2023

IC urged the Administration to "take a broad view of worker surveillance and consider the multiplicity of harms created by surveillance, both when it works as intended and when it goes off the rails."
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Data Protection
- Screening & Scoring
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates
Illinois Supreme Court Grants Big Win for Illinois Citizens’ Privacy

February 17, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court issued its opinion in Cothron v. White Castle, a case involving Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act, a special privacy law that protects Illinois residents' control over their biometric information such as fingerprints, faceprints, iris scans, and other non-changeable biological information.
- Data Protection
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Workplace Privacy
- Updates

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