National Telecomm. and Info. Admin.

  • 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.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Brokers

    • Government AI Use

    • Web Scraping

    • Updates

  • EPIC Urges NTIA to Back Data Minimization, Address Wide Range of Harms to Minors Online

    November 17, 2023

    As children and teens continue spend so much of their lives online in recreational, social and educational settings, it has become clear that existing laws and regulations do not sufficiently protect minors from online harms. In the face of emerging risks from AI and other technologies, EPIC recommended that the NTIA center safeguards like data minimization or a ban on targeted advertising to minors in any of its future recommendations.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Children's Privacy

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Protection

    • Student Privacy

    • Updates

  • EPIC Encourages NTIA to Maintain Focus on Commercial Data Harms

    March 7, 2023

    EPIC submitted comments yesterday in response to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)’s Request for Comment on Privacy, Equity and Civil Rights, encouraging NTIA to maintain its focus on harmful commercial data practices that disproportionately impact marginalized and historically excluded communities. EPIC urged NTIA to back robust oversight mechanisms and data minimization standards rather than an outdated self-regulatory model that fails to prevent consumer harms. Specifically, EPIC recommended algorithmic transparency requirements and mandatory risk and impact assessments because the “onus to avoid harms cannot rest on consumers.”

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Protection

    • Updates

  • Comments of EPIC to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on Privacy, Equity, and Civil Rights

    March 7, 2023

    The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) submits these comments in response to The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Privacy, Equity, and Civil Rights Request for Comment posted on January 20, 2023.

    • Risk Assessments

    • APA Comments

  • Developing the Administration’s Approach to Consumer Privacy

    November 9, 2018

    • Data Protection

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. Privacy Laws

    • APA Comments

  • International Internet Policy Priorities

    July 31, 2018

    • Data Protection

    • APA Comments