Tag: Facial Recognition

PCLOB Staff Report Recommends TSA’s Facial Recognition Program Remain Voluntary, Improve Transparency and Oversight

May 10, 2025

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

EPIC Endorses Traveler Privacy Protection Act

May 9, 2025

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

Senators Call on DHS to Investigate TSA’s use of Facial Recognition

November 21, 2024

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

EPIC Urges CBP to Pause its Expansion of Facial Recognition at the Border 

October 28, 2024

This afternoon, EPIC submitted comments to Customs & Border Patrol (CBP) urging it to refrain from expanding the use of facial recognition technology as part of its Biometric Entry-Exit (BE-E) Program.

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

• Updates

EPIC, Coalition Offer Recommendations to Strengthen Surveillance Technology Export Regulations

October 18, 2024

EPIC joined several other organizations in comments on the U.S. Commerce Department’s proposed rule to strengthen surveillance technology export regulations.

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Civil Rights Commission Releases Report on the Federal Government’s Use of Facial Recognition Technology

September 21, 2024

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights released the report The Civil Rights Implications of the Federal Use of Facial Recognition this week. The report detailed some of the risks of the federal government’s unfettered use of facial recognition technology.

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Privacy in Public

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

The Department of Transportation’s Underused Privacy Authority

September 9, 2024

Due to the rise of invasive airline data practices and facial recognition technology at airport gates, EPIC strongly encourages the DOT to use its unfair and deceptive enforcement authority to address harmful privacy practices.

• Consumer Privacy

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Analysis

EPIC Urges PCLOB to Take Deep Dive on Intelligence Community’s Use of AI in Counterterrorism.

July 2, 2024

On July 1, EPIC submitted comments to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB)’s request for written submission on the role of artificial intelligence in counterterrorism.

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Government AI Use

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Awards the Tire Meu Rosto da Sua Mira Campaign as EPIC International Privacy Champions

May 29, 2024

• Data Protection

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• International Privacy

• International Privacy Laws

• Privacy & Racial Justice

• Privacy in Public

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Calls on the National Institute of Justice to Center Harm Prevention and Agency Oversight in Forthcoming Criminal Justice AI Report

May 28, 2024

Today, EPIC submitted comments to the Department of Justice’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ), urging the agency to rein in the harmful biases, inaccuracies, and abuses at the core of criminal justice AI systems.

• AI in the Criminal Justice System

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Government AI Use

• Screening & Scoring

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates