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03
2018
President Trump has signed the CLOUD Act, requiring internet companies to hand over personal data to U.S. law enforcement agencies, no matter where that data is stored. The Act also allows the executive branch to create agreements with foreign countries to provide direct access to personal data stored in the United States. EPIC submitted an amicus brief in United States v. Microsoft arguing that law enforcement access to data abroad should be resolved by international consensus and comply with human rights norms. Many organizations and privacy experts have endorsed the Madrid Privacy Declaration, which would establish international protections for personal data.
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02
2018
The Department of Homeland Security has released the 2016 Annual Data Mining Report. The report describes several of the agency’s profiling systems that assign secret “risk assessments” to U.S. citizens. According to the DHS report, the Analytical Framework for Intelligence is accessible to several agency components, including the Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Coast Guard, and the Transportation Security Administration. Through a Freedom of information Act lawsuit, EPIC previously obtained important documents about the secretive scoring program. EPIC is now appealing EPIC v. DHS to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to compel the release of additional documents.
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Categories : CIA, DHS, FBI, Federal law, FIP 1: No secret collections, FIP 2: Discover, FIP 3: One use, FIP 4: Repair, FIP 5: Protect the data you have, FISA court, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance
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02
2018
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released a report on the controversial Section 702 “PRISM” program, which is set to expire on December 31, 2017. The report argues for renewal, but significant questions remain about the PRISM program. Despite repeated requests from Congress, the ODNI has refused to reveal the number of U.S. persons who are swept up in PRISM surveillance every year. EPIC sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee urging public reporting of the Government’s surveillance activities. EPIC also warned that the Section 702 legal controversy could block international data transfers.
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01
2018
The case of Reality Winner, the 25-year-old woman arrested and accused of linking classified information, shows the limits of your privacy at work.
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Categories : Breaches, Crossed Streams: Gov + Commercial, Data Mining, FIP 1: No secret collections, FIP 2: Discover, FIP 3: One use, FIP 4: Repair, FIP 5: Protect the data you have, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance
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01
2018
Donald Trump has nominated Adam Klein to head the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). Klein, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, recently testified that Congress should not require agencies to obtain a court order to query data collected under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, facilitating warrantless surveillance. As Judge Patricia Wald recently stated in remarks at the EPIC Champions of Freedom Dinner, “an agency dedicated to protecting privacy and civil liberties inside the intelligence community with access to classified material is a uniquely valuable asset in the ever difficult search for the right balance between national security and democratic values.” EPIC recently urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to restore PCLOB to full strength.
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