Commercial AI Use

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.

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Commercial AI Use

• Data Protection

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Health and Reproductive Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• Analysis

EPIC Condemns Removal of AI Executive Order Safeguards

January 31, 2025

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Commercial AI Use

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Minimization

• Government AI Use

• Updates

Time Magazine: Why DeepSeek Is Sparking Debates Over National Security, Just Like TikTok 

January 29, 2025

• Commercial AI Use

• Competition and Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Government Records & Privacy

• International Privacy

• News

Law360: FCC Told No Way To Network-Level Scan Of Calls For AI

December 19, 2024

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Commercial AI Use

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• News

Chalkbeat: AI tools and student data: Teachers can endanger kids’ privacy without robust training

December 13, 2024

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Children's Privacy

• Commercial AI Use

• Data Protection

• News

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.

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Commercial AI Use

• Updates

Building on Colorado’s AI Act to ensure sound policy

December 10, 2024

The undersigned labor, consumer, civil rights, privacy, and other public interest groups urge policymakers to maintain and strengthen the law’s protections.

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Commercial AI Use

EPIC Executive Director Testifies Before the House Financial Services Committee

December 4, 2024

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Commercial AI Use

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Minimization

• Data Protection

• Data Security

• Updates

Inside AI Policy: Tech industry group opposes bill for copyright holders to subpoena AI training data

December 2, 2024

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Commercial AI Use

• News

Reply Comments in Implications of Artificial Intelligence Technologies on Protecting Consumers from Unwanted Robocalls and Robotexts

December 1, 2024

• AI Policy

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Commercial AI Use

• Consumer Privacy

• Robocalls

• APA Comments