Tag: Artificial Intelligence

  • Maryland Legislature Passes AI Working Group Bill After Incorporating Civil Society Feedback

    April 11, 2025

    After extensive civil society pushback, the working group now includes representatives from nonprofits focused on privacy, consumer protection, civil rights and liberties, and labor.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • EPIC joins coalition letter opposing Connecticut S.B. 1249 on AI

    April 8, 2025

    The coalition letter urges the General Assembly to instead turn its attention to strengthening and passing legislation like S.B. 2.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • Virginia Governor Vetoes Weak AI Legislation

    March 25, 2025

    While regulating the use of automated decision systems in these life-altering decisions is an urgent need, this Virginia bill had serious shortcomings that would have rendered it almost meaningless in practice.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • EPIC, Coalition Oppose Maryland AI Working Group Bill With No Public Interest Representatives

    March 21, 2025

    EPIC expressed concerns that an unbalanced working group such as this one will result in insurmountable bias against meaningful AI regulation.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • EPIC Testifies in Support of Maryland AI Bill

    March 5, 2025

    This bill would place important transparency requirements on developers and deployers of high-risk AI systems that are used in consequential decision contexts, such as employment, housing, and health care.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • EPIC Testifies in Support of Maryland Bill on High-Risk AI

    February 27, 2025

    Bill sponsor Senator Katie Fry Hester presented several important amendments during the hearing that would significantly strengthen the bill and ensure that it would fulfill its intent of addressing algorithmic discrimination.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • EPIC Testifies in Support of Connecticut Bill on Algorithmic Discrimination

    February 27, 2025

    EPIC supports Connecticut S.B. 2, which seeks to regulate the development and use of high-risk AI systems.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • 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.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Commercial AI Use

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Cybersecurity

    • Data Brokers

    • Data Minimization

    • Data Security

    • Government AI Use

    • Platform Accountability & Governance

    • Social Media Privacy

    • Web Scraping

    • Analysis

  • EPIC Testifies in Support of Strong New Mexico AI Bill

    February 25, 2025

    The bill would regulate the development and use of high-risk AI systems in consequential decisions, such as decisions about employment, education, housing, health care, financial services, and insurance.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Privacy Laws

    • U.S. State Privacy Laws

    • Updates

  • Virginia Legislature Passes Weak AI Bill Full of Loopholes

    February 21, 2025

    EPIC testified in opposition to H.B. 2094 and urged lawmakers to address several key issues in the bill before passing it, including its numerous loopholes and failure to recognize algorithmic discrimination as equally harmful as discrimination by other means.

    • AI Policy

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Updates