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Anti-terror blitz hits privacy worldwide
News EPIC's report is an annual event, but last year's edition was sent to the printer in August and distributed in mid-September, after the assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon changed the way Washington felt about privacy.
[September 3, 2002, 15:15]
Documents reveal Carnivore failures
News Records on the technology were obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) after years of requests for disclosure. These documents confirm what many of us have believed for two years -- Carnivore is a powerful but clumsy tool that...
[May 29, 2002, 9:13]
Privacy group fights P2P crackdown
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is launching a counterattack against Hollywood's efforts to crack down on student file-swapping. Monitoring the content of communications is fundamentally incompatible with the mission of educational...
[November 8, 2002, 7:48]
Privacy group asks regulators to halt Google apps
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) submitted the far-reaching request to the FTC in a letter from its director, Marc Rotenberg, on Tuesday. Epic sent the letter a week after a bug in Google Docs exposed a small fraction of word...
[March 18, 2009, 8:40]
US privacy advocates sue over national IDs
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said it filed its suit with the US District Court for the District of Columbia, seeking the expedited processing and the release of records by the Office of Homeland Security.
[April 3, 2002, 9:34]
Carnivore raises new concerns
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has warned that new documents released by the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) showed Carnivore could monitor all Internet traffic -- including email, Web surfing, and file transfers...
[November 20, 2000, 8:39]
Privacy groups turn up heat on Windows XP, Passport
News During a media event here, Marc Rotenberg, executive director for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), said the groups had filed a 12-page supplemental complaint "alleging that Microsoft by offering Passport (authentication) and...
[August 16, 2001, 8:50]
Judge: FBI must cough up Carnivore info
News The FBI has defended Carnivore by assuring the public that it only captures email and other online information authorised for seizure in a court order, but the Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC) has voiced concerns over potential abuse.
[March 28, 2002, 9:24]
Politician issues Carnivore warning
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has voiced the loudest concern over the system during the past year. EPIC claimed that Carnivore could be used to monitor the innocent and sued the FBI for not providing enough information about the...
[June 15, 2001, 8:24]
Echelon fears could force new laws for America
News This is more a matter of getting a sense of how they interpret relatively old statutes," said David Sobel, general counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). EPIC has requested the documents handed over to the committee by both...
[June 29, 2000, 11:08]
US Report: Arms-control agreement threatens e-commerce
News The agreement also raises a question of trust, said EPIC's Banisar. If this becomes the standard, then we will see a lot of companies opting out of e-commerce," said David Banisar, policy director of the consumer group Electronic Privacy...
[December 4, 1998, 8:07]
P3P: Big backers, slow pickup
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) calls the Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) "Pretty Poor Privacy. Chris Hoofnagle, legislative counsel with the privacy-advocate group EPIC, said one unstated goal of P3P is to placate...
[June 11, 2002, 10:02]
Privacy camp threatens to extend Intel boycott
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Junkbusters.com.are protesting Intel's use of electronic identification technology in the new chips that they claim would allow Web surfers to be tracked.
[February 17, 1999, 9:32]
Amazon to revamp privacy policy
News The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) charged that the change represented an unfair business practice and urged the Federal Trade Commission to investigate. By clarifying the companies with which it has marketing relationships and...
[September 26, 2002, 8:02]
US regulators question cloud-computing security
News With data-management practices that are not always clear and are subject to change, companies that offer cloud-computing services are steering consumers into dangerous territory, said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy...
[March 18, 2009, 7:48]
Canada's ISPs may get 'spy' role
News Sarah Andrews, an analyst at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) who specialises in international law, says the proposal goes beyond what the cybercrime treaty specifies. EPIC opposes the cybercrime treaty, saying it grants too much...
[August 28, 2002, 13:12]
CIA funds chatroom surveillance
News Even though the money ostensibly comes from the National Science Foundation, CIA officials were involved in selecting recipients for the research grants, according to a contract between the two agencies obtained by the Electronic Privacy...
[November 25, 2004, 7:35]
Intel backtracks over chip ID
News An EPIC spokesman said the boycott will continue until more assurances come from Intel addressing privacy concerns. The boycott was called by the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center, a consumer advocacy group, and Junkbusters Inc...
[January 26, 1999, 11:14]
Google homepage link mollifies privacy campaigners
News Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the US Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic), said on Saturday that his group is "pleased" with the decision. Epic had joined with the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and the World Privacy Forum in leading...
[July 7, 2008, 11:58]
US furor rises over PC wiretap plan
News Noting that the proposal would need to find a sponsor in Congress and then be passed into law before it could take effect, EPIC's Sobel said it could encounter resistance by lawmakers. The proposal) strikes at the heart of the Bill of Rights," said...
[August 23, 1999, 9:07]
