Intelligence Surveillance

NSO Group Liable Under CFAA for Hacking WhatsApp Servers, NSO Attorneys Sanctioned for Discovery Misconduct

December 23, 2024

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

WhatsApp v NSO Group

December 23, 2024

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Lower Court Document

Anti-Spyware Coalition Sends Letter to European Union to Prosecute Illegal Hacking of Journalists and Activists in Serbia

December 20, 2024

On December 19, EPIC joined 50 civil society organizations urging major European Union (“EU”) institutions to take action to stop the Serbian Authorities’ illegal use of spyware to target journalists, activists, and members of civil society.

• Data Protection

• Intelligence Surveillance

• International Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC, Coalition Urge OMB to Rein in Agency Exploitation of the Data Broker Loophole in New Comments 

December 17, 2024

EPIC, the Brennan Center for Justice, Demand Progress, and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project were joined by several other organizations in comments submitted to the Office of Management and Budget yesterday urging it to push back against federal agency’s use of commercially available information (CAI) to get around key constitutional and statutory privacy protections. 

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Fourth Amendment

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Open Government

• Privacy Impact Assessments

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Joint Comment Regarding OMB’s Request for Information on Executive Branch Agency Handling of Commercially Available Information

December 17, 2024

This comment highlights one dangerous aspect of agency handling of CAI that demands OMB’s attention: law enforcement and intelligence agencies’ access to and use of CAI in ways that evade legal requirements set forth in the Fourth Amendment and various privacy laws enacted by Congress. We discuss the Fourth Amendment doctrines and statutes that restrict the government surveillance at issue here, how the government is using CAI to circumvent those rules, the harms of this circumvention, and recommendations that OMB should implement to regulate these practices.

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Brokers

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Comments

EPIC, Coalition Urge EU Polish Presidency to Prioritize Action Against Spyware Misuse

December 13, 2024

EPIC, alongside 13 civil society organizations, has sent a joint letter to the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, urging them to prioritize decisive action against spyware misuse.

• Data Protection

• Intelligence Surveillance

• International Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC, Coalition Urge the White House Office of Management and Budget to Halt DHS’s Harmful AI Systems

November 27, 2024

EPIC joined a coalition of over 140 organizations led by Just Futures Law to push The Office of Management and Budget to use its authority to stop the Department of Homeland Security’s use of non-conforming artificial intelligence systems to inform or make decisions regarding surveillance, deportation, and detention.

• AI in the Criminal Justice System

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Government AI Use

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

CBP’s Privacy Impact Assessment on Commercial Telemetry Data Highlights Urgent Need for PIA Reform

November 14, 2024

CBP’s PIA on CTD is extremely vague, years too late, and is a complete failure to comply with federal privacy regulations.

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Location Tracking

• Analysis

EPIC, Coalition Send Letter to DHS regarding $2 Million Contract with Paragon Solutions, Inc.

November 1, 2024

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EU Spyware Coalition Joint Statement

November 1, 2024

• Data Protection

• Intelligence Surveillance

• International Privacy

• Surveillance Oversight