EPIC attended a panel discussion on privacy and consumer data protection hosted by The Atlantic. The goal was to bring tech leaders, policymakers, and privacy scholars…
Commercial Drones and Privacy
In 2012 Congress passed the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which requires the FAA to integrate drones into the national airspace. Soon after this Act was…
How Would You Know if the Feds Searched Your E-mail? — ECPA’s Missing Notice Requirement
EPIC recently filed comments on proposed amendments to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, which would authorize judges to issue “remote access” search warrants in certain…
DoD Claim that NSA in Compliance with Privacy Act Ring Hollow
In August of 2013, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (“NPRM”). The proposed rule “update[d] the established policies, guidance, and assigned responsibilities…
Police Body Cameras: Accountability or Public Surveillance?
According to a Justice Department report, body cameras could improve officer professionalism, identify officers that abuse their authority, and help correct questionable police behavior. Recent studies…
FBI Oversight Hearing – Will we get some answers?
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding an oversight hearing of the FBI on Wednesday, May 21. There are plenty of things to oversee with respect to FBI’s…
NSA Reforms Move Forward in Congress – With a Clear Prohibition on Bulk Collection But Still Missing Important Transparency and Oversight Provisions
We have focused a lot on NSA reform since the disclosure of sweeping surveillance last summer, and now Congress is finally taking steps to move…
Argument Recap: Justices Look to Limit Warrantless Cell Phone Searches
Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Riley v. California and United States v. Wurie, two cases involving the warrantless search of an individual’s cell phone incident to…
White Hat, Black Hat, Bleeding Heart
Let’s start with the Heartbleed bug. Since the announcement of Heartbleed last week, everyone has been paying attention to security vulnerabilities – a typically niche technical…
There Are No OLC Opinions About PRISM or 215, So Who Decided It Was Legal?
In light of the President’s recent announcement that the NSA’s bulk collection of telephone metadata will end, there is a renewed interest in Congress to revise U.S. surveillance…