Government AI Use
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KQED: Traveling Internationally? What to Know About Airport Phone Searches at the US Border
May 7, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Government AI Use
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Privacy Laws
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Surveillance Oversight
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Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance
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U.S. Privacy Laws
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News
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Chicago Reader: Timothée Chalamet will set you free
April 24, 2025
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AI in the Criminal Justice System
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Government AI Use
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Surveillance Oversight
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404 Media: ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations’
April 16, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Data Protection
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Data Security
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Government AI Use
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Intelligence Surveillance
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Surveillance Oversight
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News
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Mother Jones: The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI
April 7, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Government AI Use
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Intelligence Surveillance
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Surveillance Oversight
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News
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EPIC Signs Coalition Letter Calling on OMB to Preserve Key Safeguards for AI in Federal Government
March 6, 2025
EPIC joined a coalition of over a dozen civil society organizations in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to call for the preservation of crucial transparency and safety protections for AI use cases in the federal government as the OMB implements President Trump’s Executive Order 14179, “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.”
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AI Policy
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Government AI Use
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Updates
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Seems a bit DOGE-y: Protecting Federal Worker Rights in an Era of AI-Driven Employment Decisions
March 6, 2025
In the last month and a half, the Trump Administration has systematically gutted the federal workforce. However, the Administration’s latest assault brings federal workers a new concern: that they will be fired by an algorithm. his blog post provides an overview of a federal worker’s rights when faced with termination, the problems with using automated decision-making tools to conduct terminations, and how those tools may violate worker’s rights.
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Data Protection
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Government AI Use
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Screening & Scoring
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Workplace Privacy
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Analysis
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Scraping for Me, Not for Thee: Large Language Models, Web Data, and Privacy-Problematic Paradigms
February 27, 2025
More than just hypocrisy (though that as well), the supposed reaction to DeepSeek’s model speaks to a troubling AI company argument—one that positions mass web scraping and large-scale data ingestion, sans consent, as a necessity, and an act in which only the companies themselves are entitled to partake.
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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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Cybersecurity
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Data Brokers
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Data Minimization
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Data Security
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Government AI Use
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Platform Accountability & Governance
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Social Media Privacy
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Web Scraping
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Analysis
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Google Rolls Back Responsible AI Principles, Breaking Promise to Limit Military Use of Its Products
February 5, 2025
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Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
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Government AI Use
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Surveillance Oversight
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Updates
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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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Spectrum News 1: Western N.Y. sheriff’s office among first in country to use iris scanning tech
January 13, 2025
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Face Surveillance & Biometrics
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Government AI Use
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Surveillance Oversight
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News
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