Electronic Privacy Frontier
A public interest research centre established in Washington in 1994. EPIC focus on emerging civil liberties issues, such as protection of privacyi or freedom of expressioni in the information age. EPIC activities involve policyi research, public education, conferences, litigation, publications, and advocacyi. Among other, EPIC runs 'Domestic Violence and Privacy' project aimed to help practitioners with privacy issues their clients may face.
As the part of this project, EPIC along with domestic violence advocates recommended to include strong privacy protections of online court records, which may put in risk domestic violence survivors, into the Violence Against Womeni Act (VAWA), the first federal legislation specifically addressing domestic abuse in USA. In their Gender iand Electronic Privacy study, EPIC also examines privacy issues from gender perspective.
