Consumer Privacy

EPIC Will Expand Work on Privacy and Tech Oversight in 2023

For nearly thirty years, EPIC has been fighting to secure the fundamental right to privacy for all, and the fight has never been more important. 2022 was a momentous year that brought new threats—in particular, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, which undid 50 years of precedent protecting the constitutional right to privacy—but also hope for the future. In 2023, EPIC will work to establish strong, comprehensive privacy and digital civil rights across the United States; we will help to develop new fairness and accountability mechanisms to ensure that AI and automated decision-making systems do not exacerbate inequities and discrimination; and we will work to ensure that intelligence and law enforcement surveillance programs are subject to robust oversight.

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Consumer Privacy

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Analysis

EPIC Urges Colorado Supreme Court to Rule Reverse Keyword Warrants are Unconstitutional, Points Toward Effects on Abortion Rights

• Access to Information

• Consumer Privacy

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy Laws

• Web Scraping

• Updates

Privacy, Surveillance, and AI in the FY’23 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

Each year, Congress passes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which designates specific budgets and policies for the U.S. military and a host of other government entities. The NDAA, while at its core a national defense bill, is sweeping in scale, with this year’s version providing $816,700,000,000.00 in funding to the Department of Defense. Given the sheer size of this allocation, the NDAA has impacts well beyond the military. This year, as in the recent past, there are many provisions that relate to privacy, surveillance, and AI. EPIC highlights those provisions here to help you understand where this money will be spent in the upcoming years.

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Government AI Use

• Analysis

EPIC Submits Comments to Strengthen CFPB Proposals for Financial Data Rights Rulemaking

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Consumer Privacy

• Updates

EPIC, EFF, and CDT to New Jersey Supreme Court: Don’t Let Police Sleight-of-Hand Avoid Wiretap Requirements

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• U.S. Privacy Laws

• Wiretapping

• Updates

EPIC Urges FTC to Regulate Surveillance Tech Companies Using Police as Promoters

• Big Data

• Consumer Privacy

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy in Public

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Facebook v. New Jersey

When police want to order a social media company to give them access to a person's future social media messages every 15 minutes for a period of thirty days, can they do so through one search warrant, or do they need to apply for a wiretap order?

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• U.S. Privacy Laws

• U.S. State Privacy Laws

• Wiretapping

• Amicus Briefs

EPIC Comments on FTC Advanced Notice of Proposed Trade Regulation Rule on Use of Reviews and Endorsements

• Big Data

• Competition and Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy in Public

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

FCC Requests Comment on EPIC Broadband Label Privacy Proposal

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Updates

Ninth Circuit Revives Children’s Privacy Class Action Against Google

• Children's Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Enforcement of Privacy Laws

• Student Privacy

• Updates