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Dark Reading: OPSEC Nightmare: Leaking US Military Plans to a Reporter

March 25, 2025
- Access to Information
- Cybersecurity
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Encryption
- News
As Above Doesn’t Have to Be Below: States Should Be a Counterweight to Eroding Federal Transparency

March 18, 2025

We face a crisis of institutional legitimacy across the federal government. States can preserve and enhance democracy by acting as a valuable counterweight to the breakdown of federal transparency measures and implement much needed reform.
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- Democracy & Free Speech
- Freedom of Information Act
- Open Government
- Surveillance Oversight
- Analysis
Rays-ing the Bar for Sunshine Week 2025

March 17, 2025
- Access to Information
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Federal Advisory Committee Act
- Freedom of Information Act
- Open Government
- Privacy Impact Assessments
- Updates
EPIC Urges FCC to Require More Disclosures Around AI Content in Political Ads—and Restrict AI Disinformation

September 5, 2024
- Access to Information
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Updates
Comment on Disclosure and Transparency of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content in Political Advertisements (FCC Request for Comment)

September 5, 2024

In these comments, EPIC commends the FCC for pursuing AI transparency in the realm of political advertisements, but cautions the Commission that more granular information (and limited restraints) will be necessary to ensure the public can discern what content is real and worth believing.
- Access to Information
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Commercial AI Use
- Democracy & Free Speech
- APA Comments
“Free” Prison Tablets: In Promise and In Practice

August 29, 2024
- Access to Information
- Communications Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Analysis
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 Tells Ninth Circuit That X Has To Do More Than Assert Hypothetical Harm To Strike Down California Disclosure Law

March 28, 2024
- Access to Information
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- The First Amendment
- Updates
Here Comes the Sun(shine Week): Celebrating Some EPIC Open Government Wins

March 14, 2024

In celebration of Sunshine Week, EPIC is highlighting some open government successes from the past year.
- Access to Information
- AI Policy
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Freedom of Information Act
- Government AI Use
- Government Databases
- Intelligence Surveillance
- Open Government
- Privacy Impact Assessments
- Surveillance Oversight
- Analysis
European Commission Publishes Interactive Summary of Platform Content Moderation Data

February 1, 2024

The European Commission has published an interactive dashboard that summarizes data on content moderation decisions from multiple online platform providers.
- Access to Information
- Data Protection
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Enforcement of Privacy Laws
- International Privacy
- Online Harassment
- Updates