Jeramie D. Scott

Director of the Project on Surveillance Oversight and Senior Counsel at @EPICprivacy. Find me on Mastodon here: @[email protected]

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Vermont Gov. Phil Scott just vetoed the Vermont Data Privacy Act (H.121), a landmark data privacy bill that would be one of the strongest privacy laws in the nation. https://t.co/GKzEv8qcF3

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Your silence is deafening. @TSA @TSA_Pekoske

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It has become increasingly clear that @TSA & @TSA_Pekoske are trying to pull a bait-and-switch--touting publicly the "voluntariness" of #facialrecognition at airports as it tries to implement FRT while having every intention to make it mandatory. Tell me I'm wrong @TSA.

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It has become increasingly clear that @TSA & @TSA_Pekoske are trying to pull a bait-and-switch--touting publicly the "voluntariness" of #facialrecognition at airports as it tries to implement FRT while having every intention to make it mandatory. Tell me I'm wrong @TSA.

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EPIC, Coalition to Senate: Pause TSA’s Facial Recognition Program Now
https://t.co/jSGosMMDMk

The coalition letter comes after Senators @SenJeffMerkley, @SenJohnKennedy, & @RogerMarshallMD introduced an amend. to pause the expansion of TSA’s FR program. Why a pause is important:

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Last week, EPIC submitted FOIA requests to ODNI, DOJ, FBI, CIA, and NSA asking for their responses to congressional oversight of FISA Section 702 & other warrantless surveillance, including buyinng Americans’ sensitive data. (1/x)

https://t.co/TbdRSrhTGH

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NextGov: TSA uses ‘minimum’ data to fine-tune its facial recognition, but some experts still worry

https://t.co/sDN0wSMG2K
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As @JeramieScott notes, “The members who voted for this extension will have to explain to their constituents why they continue to dodge real, meaningful debate over warrantless government surveillance and ignore the long history of abuse of Section 702.” (3/x)

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House and Senate leaders have slipped a reauthorization of FISA Section 702 into the NDAA, a shocking attempt to entrench a controversial and sweeping surveillance authority that Congress is actively working to reform. (1/x)
https://t.co/AGJg08W5n5

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As first reported by @WIRED, @RonWyden revealed stunning new details about the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Hemisphere program, now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS), a vast and highly secretive surveillance authority run out of the White House: https://t.co/Nei5teEl65 (1/x)

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Today, @RonWyden, @SenMikeLee, @WarrenDavidson, and @RepZoeLofgren introduced the Government Surveillance Reform Act (GSRA), a sweeping surveillance reform bill that would #FixFISA and more. @JeramieScott’s statement:

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New from @EPICprivacy: "ICE’s Privacy Impact Assessment on Surveillance Technologies is an Exercise in Disregarding Reality"

https://t.co/DFP4mWFcSl

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EPIC's @JeramieScott released the following statement on the report:

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See the full report, endorsed by a majority of members, here: https://t.co/Aw4ZK4Qm4q

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Today, as part of its new oversight report on FISA Section 702, @PCLOB_GOV recommended that agencies generally be required to obtain individualized judicial approval before accessing the results of searches of Americans’ communications, otherwise known as “backdoor searches”

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New @EPICprivacy report on #AI procurement!

50 states. 621 contracts. Over $700 million. Across the country, EPIC found state agencies outsourcing important govt decisions to private companies & their AI systems, all without public input or oversight.

https://t.co/JhCWyDCIkI

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🚨 NEW from EPIC Summer Clerk Katrina Zhu: The State of State AI Laws in 2023!

2023 has seen a surge in state AI laws, with 10 states including AI regulations as part of larger consumer privacy laws and even more proposing similar bills. #AIPolicy
https://t.co/KhHQtbvqtf

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EPIC's @JeramieScott believes this new AI surveillance program is using "technology to solve a problem in a way that is more or less a Band-Aid."

What's more, "We just can’t predict every way that AI may be used to leverage the information the federal government already has."

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Flying this summer? You might want to read EPIC's @JeramieScott post on why TSA's use of #facialrecognition is more dangerous than you think. https://t.co/JUSJ01uH7S

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Mike Lee speaks with the same level of frustration the civil liberties community has had for many years as we continue to see warrantless Sec 702 surveillance with zero remedy aside from incremental internal changes with no backbone. More of this please! #FixFISA

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@SenBlumenthal discussing fixing the FISA Court. Need some background? See this blog post on the topic. #FixFISA https://t.co/9p8l9YUXPj