“EPIC has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain details about the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s surveillance programs. The agency is required to conduct privacy impact assessments when it collects and uses personal data. However, the Bureau has failed to publicly release privacy impact assessments for many of its programs, including facial recognition, drones, and license plate readers. According to the E-Government Act and Justice Department guidelines, all privacy assessments should be made public if practicable. EPIC, joined by a coalition of organizations, recently urged the Attorney General to immediately conduct a privacy assessment of the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) program. The NGI program collects massive amounts of biometric data on U.S. citizens. For more information, see EPIC: EPIC v. FBI – Privacy Assessment.”