Tag: Fourth Amendment

EPIC, Coalition Amicus: People Retain a Privacy Interest in the Data on Lost Phones

June 3, 2024

EPIC and a coalition urged the 9th Circuit to find that when a person loses their cell phone, they do not lose a privacy interest in the digital contents of that phone.

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Wiretapping

• Updates

EPIC Urges Appeals Court to Require Police to Obtain Search Warrants Before Conducting Months-Long Recordings of People’s Homes

May 19, 2023

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy in Public

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

EPIC Urges Colorado Supreme Court to Rule Reverse Keyword Warrants are Unconstitutional, Points Toward Effects on Abortion Rights

January 26, 2023

• Access to Information

• Consumer Privacy

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy Laws

• Web Scraping

• Updates

Privacy, Surveillance, and AI in the FY’23 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

January 26, 2023

Each year, Congress passes the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which designates specific budgets and policies for the U.S. military and a host of other government entities. The NDAA, while at its core a national defense bill, is sweeping in scale, with this year’s version providing $816,700,000,000.00 in funding to the Department of Defense. Given the sheer size of this allocation, the NDAA has impacts well beyond the military. This year, as in the recent past, there are many provisions that relate to privacy, surveillance, and AI. EPIC highlights those provisions here to help you understand where this money will be spent in the upcoming years.

• Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

• Consumer Privacy

• Data Protection

• Democracy & Free Speech

• Government AI Use

• Analysis

Members of Congress Ask FBI to Provide Information on Law Enforcement Face Surveillance

December 20, 2022

• Face Surveillance & Biometrics

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Consumers’ Sensitive Internet Metadata Sold to DOD-Funded Researchers

December 19, 2022

• Intelligence Surveillance

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Report: FBI Relied Heavily on Google Geofence Warrants in January 6 Investigations

November 30, 2022

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy in Public

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates

Report: DOD Agencies Provided Access to “Petabytes” of Data, Including Internet Browsing and Email Data, via Data Broker Mass Monitoring Tool

September 21, 2022

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy Laws

• Updates

EPIC & Coalition Tell Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Pole Camera Surveillance Case

November 17, 2021

• Fourth Amendment

• Privacy Laws

• Surveillance Oversight

• Updates