AI Policy
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Joint Statement: Within Bounds: Limiting AI’s Environmental Impact
February 6, 2025
Joint statement from civil society for the AI Action Summit Signed by over 100 organizations. If you share our concerns and demands that AI systems be made compatible with our planetary boundaries, and are a civil society organization, can you can sign on here.
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Statements
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Paying for Iris Scans: AI-Fueled Surveillance Harms
February 6, 2025
Hype about AI research and development is driving companies to buy people’s data where they otherwise weren’t and, conversely, to sell people’s (including customers’ and users’) data where they otherwise wouldn’t. These practices are harmful already. And their acceleration by the AI craze is poised to rapidly increase data-sharing, -selling, and -monetization threats to privacy in the coming years. This enables the repeat exploitation of people’s data and causes especially pronounced harm to vulnerable people and communities.
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Commercial AI Use
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Data Protection
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Health and Reproductive Privacy
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Surveillance Oversight
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Analysis
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EPIC Condemns Removal of AI Executive Order Safeguards
January 31, 2025
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Commercial AI Use
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Consumer Privacy
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Data Minimization
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Government AI Use
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Updates
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EPIC Presents to Lawmakers on State AI Legislation
January 30, 2025
Williams’s presentation urged lawmakers to prohibit algorithmic discrimination, ensure their legislation contains broad definitions without loopholes, and include robust enforcement mechanisms, including a private right of action.
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Privacy Laws
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U.S. State Privacy Laws
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Updates
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Tech Policy Press: What to Watch on US State Tech Policy in 2025
January 5, 2025
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AI Policy
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Consumer Privacy
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News
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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
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Data Protection
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International Privacy
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Student Privacy
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Workplace Privacy
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Comments
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Colorado Public Radio News: As Colorado refines its law on AI discrimination, privacy and consumer groups urge policymakers to give it teeth
December 10, 2024
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Consumer Privacy
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Privacy Laws
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U.S. State Privacy Laws
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News
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Advocacy groups call on Colorado lawmakers to strengthen the state’s AI Act
December 10, 2024
The groups called on lawmakers to retain several strong provisions as well as add other key protections to ensure the Colorado AI Act effectively protects residents of the state.
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Commercial AI Use
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Updates
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Inside AI Policy: Tech industry group opposes bill for copyright holders to subpoena AI training data
December 2, 2024
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Commercial AI Use
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News
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Reply Comments in Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies on Protecting Consumers from Unwanted Robocalls and Robotexts
December 1, 2024
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Commercial AI Use
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Consumer Privacy
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Robocalls
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APA Comments
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