Office of Management and Budget

  • Joint Comment Regarding OMB’s Request for Information on Executive Branch Agency Handling of Commercially Available Information

    December 17, 2024

    This comment highlights one dangerous aspect of agency handling of CAI that demands OMB’s attention: law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ access to and use of CAI in ways that evade legal requirements set forth in the Fourth Amendment and various privacy laws enacted by Congress. We discuss the Fourth Amendment doctrines and statutes that restrict the government surveillance at issue here, how the government is using CAI to circumvent those rules, the harms of this circumvention, and recommendations that OMB should implement to regulate these practices.

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Data Brokers

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Comments

  • OMB Finalizes Guidance on Federal Government AI Procurement

    October 4, 2024

    The OMB's AI procurement memorandum sets out best practices for managing AI risks, calls on agencies to promote competition in the AI market and adds additional testing and risk mitigation requirements for procured generative AI systems.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Government AI Use

    • Updates

  • EPIC Comments to CBP and OMB on CBP One Expansion for Biometric Exit

    May 3, 2024

    EPIC urged CBP and OMB not to expand the flawed CBP One app to Biometric Exit.

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

    • APA Comments

  • EPIC, Coalition Urge OMB to Adopt AI Procurement Guidelines with Civil Rights and Transparency in Mind

    April 29, 2024

    Today, a cross-cutting coalition of civil society organizations led by EPIC and the Brennan Center for Justice filed joint comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) laying out the need for additional federal AI procurement guidance to adequately mitigate the risks of procured AI.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Government AI Use

    • Screening & Scoring

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

    • Updates

  • 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.

    • Government Databases

    • Open Government

    • Privacy Impact Assessments

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • Comments of EPIC to OMB on Privacy Impact Assessments

    April 2, 2024

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Government AI Use

    • Government Databases

    • Open Government

    • Privacy Impact Assessments

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • APA Comments

  • Coalition Comment to OMB on Privacy Impact Assessments

    April 2, 2024

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Government AI Use

    • Government Databases

    • Open Government

    • Privacy Impact Assessments

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • APA Comments

  • OMB Finalizes Long-Awaited Guidance on Federal AI Use

    March 28, 2024

    Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its final guidance on AI governance, innovation, and risk management within federal agencies.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Data Protection

    • Government AI Use

    • Government Records & Privacy

    • Screening & Scoring

    • Updates

  • Office of Management and Budget Memorandum on Use of AI in Government

    December 6, 2023

    • AI in the Criminal Justice System

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Government AI Use

    • Open Government

    • Comments

  • EPIC Urges OMB to Strengthen Draft Regulations for Government Use of AI

    December 5, 2023

    EPIC submitted comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget commending their strong step toward regulating AI use by federal government agencies, and recommending several ways to strengthen it.

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Government AI Use

    • Screening & Scoring

    • Updates