The FTC is seeking public comment on its proposed Agreement with Google regarding Google Buzz, and EPIC wants your voice to be heard! Use the form below to help build your comments. EPIC will se...
On Election Day, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division will deploy more than 400 federal observers to monitor polls in 18 states. Staff at the Civil Rights Division will be available to...
The Electronic Privacy Information Center released the 2010 update to its "E-Deceptive Campaign Practices: Technology and Democracy 2.0 " report, first published in 2008. The report reviews the p...
EPIC, joined by the Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Action, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, and the Liberty Coalition launched the Privacy 2010 campaign at a press conference to...
EPIC, joined by the American Library Association , Liberty Coalition , Bill of Rights Defense Committee , and the Center for Media and Democracy , among others, sent a statement to the Departmen...
As a result of an ongoing investigation into online privacy, the Wall Street Journal has found evidence that the 50 top websites directed toward children placed 30% more tracking cookies on tho...
The Help America Vote Act requires states to verify the identities of first time voters by inspecting a current and valid photo identification, copy of a utility bill, paycheck or other governm...
A class action lawsuit has been filed in California federal District Court against Ringleader Digital. The New York based advertising agency uses HTML5 database storage to tracks Mobile Safari ...
The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a U.S. Magistrate Judge's ruling that prosecutors seeking cell site location information (CSLI) need probable cause to get a warrant for those r...
A burglary ring in Nashua, N.H. targeted victims by monitoring their status updates on Facebook . The ring was uncovered when an off-duty police officer, alerted to the fact that a specific type ...
The American Hospital Association will host two teleconference calls to explain the proposed changes to federal rules regarding their obligation to protect the patient medical records privacy . A...
iPhone SDK changes would restrict access to customer personal data collected by third party applications that had been sharing customer data with analytics companies. Apple's privacy policy outl...
Senators Schumer (D-NY) and Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the Mobile Device Identification Act that if passed would require all pre-paid phone users to provide an ID as a condition of purchase. The bi...
Google Street View according to Privacy International after reviewing audit logs engaged in criminal intent to collect and store all unencrypted wireless computer network information. Google is ...
A California federal court ruled that nonpublic Facebook communications and content is protected by the Stored Communications Act and cannot be access by a civil subpoena. The ruling gives adde...