From EPIC:
EPIC has filed a “friend of the court” brief, joined by forty-four technical experts and legal scholars (members of the EPIC Advisory Board), in the OPM Data Breach case. The case concerns the data breach at the US Office of Personnel and Management in 2015 that affected 22 million federal employees, their friends, and family members. In the brief to the federal appeals court, EPIC said that “when personal data is collected by a government agency, that agency has a constitutional obligation to protect the personal data it has obtained.” In a 2011 case NASA v. Nelson, EPIC urged the Supreme Court to limit data collection by federal agencies, citing the growing risk of data breach in the federal government.