Electronic Privacy Information Center

The Electronic Privacy Information Center appears in How government uses "surveillance as a service" to collect data through Jeremy Scott, who directs its Surveillance Oversight Program. In the episode, EPIC’s role is to scrutinize government use of privately collected data and push for legislation that closes the Data Broker Loophole.

The organization connects the wiki’s privacy branch to a civil-liberties enforcement problem: if companies collect location, identity, license-plate, or behavioral data at scale, government access to those systems can become functionally similar to direct surveillance even when the collection layer is private.

Connections

• Jeremy Scott - EPIC expert interviewed in the episode.
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Flock Safety - agencies and company in the surveillance discussion.
• Data Broker Loophole, Surveillance as a Service, Fourth Amendment Digital Privacy, and Civil Liberties Surveillance Risk - core issues raised.
• Ron Wyden, Montana, and [[FourthAmendmentIsNotForSaleAct|Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act]] - legislative reform references.