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Project Dystopia: How a Little-Known Non-Profit Has New Orleans Considering Mass, Real-Time Facial Recognition Surveillance

The New Orleans City Council is considering Ordinance 35,137 that would authorize the continued use of the live facial recognition system implemented by Project NOLA. Project NOLA, a non-profit organization, runs a centralized surveillance system that has equipped New Orleans with more than 200 facial recognition cameras at various establishments and residential locations.

July 31, 2025 |

Tsion Agaro, Arthur Liman Summer Fellow

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Big Tech’s Holiday Wish List: Secretly Charging You More with Surveillance Pricing

December 18, 2025 | by Tom McBrien, EPIC Counsel; Kara Williams, EPIC Counsel; Mayu Tobin-Miyaji, EPIC Law Fellow; Hayden Davis, EPIC Law Fellow
Meta’s Attorney Said We Were Wrong About Section 230. But It Is Meta That Is Wrong, Not Us.

December 10, 2025 | by Tom McBrien, EPIC Counsel & Megan Iorio, EPIC Senior Counsel

During the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s hearing last Friday on whether Meta should be able to escape a lawsuit alleging it designed its platforms to be addictive to minors, two justices asked Meta’s attorney how Meta’s reading of Sect…
Updated EPIC Resources Highlight Data Broker Harms to Different Communities

December 4, 2025

EPIC published updates to a series of one-pagers highlighting how data brokers harm national security, domestic violence survivors, immigrants, and public officials.
New Resource: How Existing Laws Apply to AI Chatbots for Kids and Teens

November 10, 2025

Recognizing the urgency of these issues, we’ve come together – a team of privacy experts and former enforcers – to outline how existing laws can meet emerging AI risks to kids and teens. The “How Existing Laws Apply to AI Chatbots for Kids an…
EPIC’s Insights from a Five-Year Retrospective on State Attorneys General Privacy Enforcement and Tools for the Work Ahead

October 30, 2025 | by Suzanne Bernstein, Chris Fracella, and Kara Williams
Let’s Not Get Competitive About Tracking Mobile Users: How EU Competition Authorities Are Threatening to Roll Back Privacy Protections on iOS

October 22, 2025 | by Alan Butler, EPIC Executive Director & Calli Schroeder, EPIC Senior Counsel

Hard-fought progress to push back against ubiquitous tracking online is now at risk in the complicated intersections between privacy and competition enforcement, and finding regulatory solutions will be essential to preserving user rights and fair ma…
California Tech Legislation Roundup: Numerous Privacy and AI Laws Enacted and Six Vetoed

October 15, 2025 | by Kara Williams, EPIC Counsel & Mayu Tobin-Miyaji, EPIC Law Fellow

The California Legislature once again passed numerous tech-focused bills this legislative session, including bills on both privacy and AI. Governor Gavin Newsom signed many of these bills into law during the past month, but he also vetoed six major t…
Specific Terms for Specific Risks: The Need for Accurate Definitions of AI Systems in Policymaking

October 1, 2025 | by Kara Williams, EPIC Counsel & Ben Winters, Director of AI and Data Privacy at Consumer Federation of America

Despite our cultural tendency to refer to a huge variety of different technologies as “AI,” it is essential to be specific about what we mean, both in common conversation and in legislators’ efforts to regulate technology.
Multiple Courts Confirm: Carriers Must Protect Your Phone Location Data

September 23, 2025

It feels like a rare treat these days to be able to share positive updates related to our privacy and cybersecurity work. But we are happy to report that three different courts of appeals have issued favorable decisions this summer supporting strong …
Does Meta Care About User Safety? Its Turn Away From Humans to AI for Risk Assessments Says No

September 4, 2025 | by Calli Schroeder, Director of the AI & Human Rights Program & Mayu Tobin-Miyaji, EPIC Law Fellow

Despite increasing skepticism by the public and ongoing criticisms of unsafe, privacy-violating products, Meta recently announced that it is turning to AI to conduct risk assessments of new features and products. This move is the latest example of …