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Electronic Privacy Information Center. EPIC was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. In 2001-2002, Marc Rotenberg, director of EPIC, supported a lot of articles criticising new laws on the privacy of netizens including the Homeland Security Act, Darpa and the modification or "hooverisation" of the FBI: "This could be the perfect storm for civil liberties in America" On January 2nd, 2003, Newsday reported, that the Office of Homeland Security lost the first round in a legal fight against EPIC. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a decision permitting EPIC to pursue discovery concerning the "nature of the authority" delegated to the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) and its Director, Tom Ridge. http://www.epic.org/open_gov/homeland/ohs_decision.pdf The ruling comes in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by EPIC after OHS took the position that it is not subject to the open government law. David Sobel, attorney for the privacy group, called the ruling an intermediate victory over Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. Source: http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-homeland-privacy0102jan02,0,6983862.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dpolitics%2Dheadlines

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