Comment Submitted to the Office of Management and Budget Regarding Executive Branch Handling of Commercially Available Information
On December 16, 2024, the Brennan Center for Justice, Demand Progress Education Fund (Demand Progress), the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), and 12 other civil society organizations jointly submitted a comment to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), urging OMB to prohibit agencies’ circumvention of constitutional and statutory privacy protections and to require more oversight and transparency over agency handling of Commercially Available Information (CAI).