Government Databases

EPIC Comments to FCC on Martha-Wright Reed Act Implementation

Comments of EPIC to the FCC on the Implementation of the Martha Wright-Reed Act to expand the authority of the FCC to lower prices for prison telecommunications.

• Communications Privacy

• Consumer Privacy

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Wiretapping

• APA Comments

EPIC and ACLU Urge NIST to Advance Privacy in Digital Identity Guidelines

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Government AI Use

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Cautions OSTP on Data Transfers, Urges Differential Privacy

On March 30, EPIC submitted comments to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) recommending several resources that might assist OSTP in fulfilling the aims of the "Advancing Effective, Accountable Policing and Criminal Justice Practices to Enhance Public Trust and Public Safety" Executive Order.

• Access to Information

• AI in the Criminal Justice System

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Fourth Amendment

• Freedom of Information Act

• Government Databases

• Open Government

• Privacy & Racial Justice

• Privacy in Public

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Comments of EPIC to OSTP on Criminal Justice Statistics Request for Information

EPIC's comments to OSTP in the form of a reading list of relevant work by EPIC and other organizations describing how law enforcement agencies regularly violate open records law, eschew transparency, and misuse data and statistics in ways that perpetuate harm

• AI in the Criminal Justice System

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Fourth Amendment

• Freedom of Information Act

• Government Databases

• Open Government

• Privacy & Racial Justice

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

CryptoMode: The Potential Dystopian Future: How CBDCs Could Destroy Privacy and Freedom

• Consumer Privacy

• Government Databases

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Open Government

• Surveillance Oversight

• News

The Japan Times: Why does the U.S. still retain the biometrics of millions of Iraqis?

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Government Databases

• Open Government

• Surveillance Oversight

• News

EPIC, Coalition Call on DEA to End Illegal National License Plate Reader Program

EPIC joined a diverse coalition of civil society groups to urge the DEA to end the National License Plate Reader Program.

• Government Databases

• Privacy in Public

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC, Coalition Urge HHS to Abandon Database Tracking HIV PrEP Users

Rights urged the agency to reverse plans that would require recipients of free HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to submit information to a database maintained by HHS.

• Data Protection

• Government Databases

• Health Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Comments of EPIC, CHLP, PrEP4All, and Patient Privacy Rights to HHS on HIV PrEP Database SoRN

• Data Protection

• Government Databases

• Health Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• APA Comments

EPIC, Coalition Call for ICE to Cancel Contract with LexisNexis for Invasive Surveillance Databases

In a letter signed by more than 80 immigrant rights, racial justice, government accountability, human rights, and privacy organizations, EPIC and coalition members called upon ICE not to renew a $22 million contract for a suite of surveillance services.

• Government Databases

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates