Tag: Surveillance

  • EPIC, Coalition Urge Congress to Eliminate Funding for Failed “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

    A letter from EPIC and a coalition to Congress calling for an end to ineffective and dangerous Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevent grant program.

    • Democracy & Free Speech

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Privacy & Racial Justice

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • New ICE Privacy Impact Assessment Shows All the Way the Agency Fails to Protect Immigrants’ Privacy

    ICE finally published a Privacy Impact Assessment for its massive Alternatives to Detention program surveilling immigrants waiting for court dates. Despite being 20 years late, the document fails to account for most of the harms of ICE surveillance and is already outdated.

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Traveler Screening & Border Surveillance

    • Analysis

  • EPIC, Coalition Call for Hearing on NYPD POST Act Violations

    EPIC and a coalition of civil rights, civil liberties, privacy, and community-based organizations have requestedthat the New York City Council hold a hearing on NYPD’s noncompliance with the POST Act.

    • Privacy in Public

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • EPIC Seeks ODNI-Led Report on Government Data Purchases

    PIC submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) concerning an ODNI-led report on the government’s purchase of data, including sensitive data on Americans.

    • FISA Section 702

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • President Biden Signs Executive Order Restricting U.S. Government Use of Commercial Spyware

    The executive order prohibits the operational use of commercial spyware if the government determines that the spyware poses “significant counterintelligence or security risks” to the U.S. government or if it poses “significant risks of improper use by a foreign government or foreign person.”

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • Two Years In, COVID-19 Relief Money Fueling Rise of Police Surveillance

    EPIC's analysis of media and government reporting indicates that local governments and police departments have used significant amounts of their COVID-19 relief funds to fund police surveillance technology, buying everything from gunshot detection systems to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) to phone hacking tools.

    • Privacy in Public

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Analysis

  • Reforming 702: End Warrantless Backdoor Searches

    In the second post of a running blog series on Section 702 ahead of its reauthorization deadline in December 2023, EPIC outlines what warrantless backdoor searches are and how they have historically been abused.

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Analysis

  • Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Case Challenging NSA Surveillance

    The Supreme Court declined to hear Wikimedia v. NSA, Wikimedia’s challenge to the NSA’s mass surveillance of Internet communications under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which expires at the end of 2023.

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • EPIC, Coalition Urge Reform of Section 702 of FISA

    • Intelligence Surveillance

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Updates

  • EPIC Will Expand Work on Privacy and Tech Oversight in 2023

    For nearly thirty years, EPIC has been fighting to secure the fundamental right to privacy for all, and the fight has never been more important. 2022 was a momentous year that brought new threats—in particular, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, which undid 50 years of precedent protecting the constitutional right to privacy—but also hope for the future. In 2023, EPIC will work to establish strong, comprehensive privacy and digital civil rights across the United States; we will help to develop new fairness and accountability mechanisms to ensure that AI and automated decision-making systems do not exacerbate inequities and discrimination; and we will work to ensure that intelligence and law enforcement surveillance programs are subject to robust oversight.

    • Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights

    • Consumer Privacy

    • Privacy Laws

    • Surveillance Oversight

    • Analysis