EPIC Joins Coalition’s Push to Stop DHS’s Harmful Surveillance Practices

EPIC joined The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and several other civil society organizations on a coalition letter urging the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs to rein in the DHS’s deeply harmful surveillance practices.

“Simply put, the government, through DHS, has built exactly what Congress sought to prevent: a surveillance apparatus that creates comprehensive dossiers on all people in the United States, regardless of citizenship status,” the letter reads.

The coalition called for the committee to:

• Halt any additional funding for ICE or CBP;
• Restrict DHS’s surveillance and data-weaponization capabilities by creating requirements for funding the acquisition of technology and commercial data; and
• Establish strict accountability measures tied to existing funding.

This letter is EPIC’s latest move in a long campaign to roll back government surveillance. We will continue to fight back against rights-violating technology and the surveillance dragnet it enables.