“The People-First bill was unveiled in January by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Consumer Federation of America and Fairplay. The bill has been endorsed ...
Lawsuit Challenges DHS’s Unlawful Effort to Build a Nationwide Voter Database Containing Sensitive Personal Information from at Least 47 States Washington, D.C ...
We write to oppose the STOP CSAM Act, which has also been introduced as amendment #251to the National Defense Authorization Act. EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C., ...
At the beginning of September, Meta launched Muse, a “personal AI agent” marketed to collect as much data as possible assist users with whatever tasks they request or enable. Suggested uses in the ...
Whether the government’s use of a geofence warrant to place Chatrie’s phone at the scene of a crime violated the Fourth Amendment. This case is about the constitutionality of a relatively new ...
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The D.C. district court ruled that the expanded SAVE program violated multiple laws. We will be doing everything in our power ...
On Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism held a hearing on Flock’s Nationwide AI Surveillance Network. Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers ...
Nearly everyone—including state and local governments—relies on some kind of technology to do their jobs. From automated fraud detection systems to AI-driven surveillance technology, states contract ...
Meta has agreed to pay approximately $18 billion and make certain platform design changes to resolve claims brought by a coalition of more than 40 state attorneys general alleging that Facebook and ...
This past April, the Fourth Circuit held in O.W. v. School Board of the City of Virginia Beach that an assistant principal’s warrantless search of a 13-year-old’s cellphone in the presence of school ...
“Two and a half years later, what the Duke team demonstrated in a controlled study is now a matter of public record. In March 2026, the Electronic Privacy ...