* October 2005: EPIC led a campaign of more than 100 organizations that urged Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to end the " Joint Advertising and Market Research Studies " Recruiting Database.

EPIC urged Congress to pass strong data security legislation that includes privacy protections for use of personal information.

* March 2005: EPIC urged lawmakers to regulate Choicepoint and other data brokers in testimony before the House Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection.

* February 2006: In testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg called for a ban on the sale of communications records, as well as a ban on " pretexting ," the practice of using false pretenses to trick a company into releasing personal information.

* July 2005: EPIC testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in opposition to the ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime.

* January 2005: EPIC learned through Freedom of Information Act litigation that the FBI had obtained 257. 5 million Passenger Name Records following 9 / 11, and that the Bureau has permanently incorporated the travel details of tens of millions of innocent people into its law enforcement databases.

* August 2005: EPIC and a coalition of open government organizations filed an amicus brief in Gonzales v. Doe, a lawsuit concerning the FBI's authority to issue national security letters without judicial approval and under a permanent gag order that bans the recipient from telling anyone about the demand.

* April 2005: EPIC filed a complaint asking a federal court to force the FBI to disclose information about its use of expanded investigative authority granted by sunsetting provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.

EPIC advocates for strong privacy safeguards.

* August 2005: EPIC petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to initiate a rulemaking to enhance security safeguards for individuals ' calling records.

It is originally based on ircII-EPIC and eventually it was merged into the EPIC IRC client.

In addition, the EPIC concept depends on compiler capabilities that had never been implemented before, so more research was needed.

EPIC also established the National Committee on Voting Integrity.

After becoming an independent non-profit organization in November 2000, EPIC has continued to work on governmental issues: surveillance ; transparency, using the Freedom of Information Act to publicize documents ; and the security, verifiability, and privacy of electronic voting.

In 1997 Wayne Madsen, now an investigative journalist on international security issues and counterterrorism, joined EPIC as a senior fellow, leaving in 2005

EPIC has been criticized by both opponents and supporters for what are seen as its extreme positions on privacy issues.

EPIC also publishes several books on privacy and open government, including Privacy and Human Rights, Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws, Filters and Freedom, The Public Voice WSIS Sourcebook, The Privacy Law Sourcebook, and The Consumer Law Sourcebook.

* March 2007: In testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg expressed support for H. R.

* February 2007: In testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, EPIC staff counsel Allison Knight testified in support of the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007.

* May 2006: EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg testified at a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on the Truth in Caller ID Act of 2006, a bill that would outlaw " spoofing " telephone calls.

* April 2006: EPIC filed a friend of the court brief in Peterson v. NTIA supporting the rights of. US domain name holders not to publish their personal information on the Internet.

* February 2006: EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on the sale of personal phone records.

EPIC called for laws that would ban pretexting ( a technique used by data brokers to obtain personal information ), as well as enhanced security procedures, and restrictions on the collection of customer data.

* July 2005: EPIC testified before the House Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection.

* May 2005: EPIC testified before the House Judiciary Committee on one of several proposals before Congress to impose new employment verification requirements on those wishing to work within the U. S. The legislation would require all workers to obtain a Social Security Number card that would be machine-readable, and would also empower the Department of Homeland Security to determine employment eligibility of those seeking employment.

The EPIC was powered by 28 12-volt NiMH batteries and was capable of traveling up to on a single charge.

* April 2007: EPIC, along with the Center for Digital Democracy and U. S. PIRG, filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, urging the Commission to open an investigation into the proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google.

The El Paso Intelligence Center ( EPIC ) was established in 1974 in response to a study by the Justice Management Division of the U. S. Department of Justice entitled, " A Secure Border.

Expanded in 1998-1999, EPIC headquarters is located at 11339 SSG Sims St., Biggs Army Airfield, TX 79908, which lies within the Fort Bliss military reservation in El Paso, Texas and is run jointly by the DEA and U. S. Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ), part of the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ).

In the pre-DHS era, the three main federal agencies at EPIC were DEA, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ) and the U. S. Customs Service.

The EPIC website says, " The incredible complexity of P3P, combined with the way that popular browsers are likely to implement the protocol would seem to preclude it as a privacy-protective technology ," EPIC continues on to state, " Rather, P3P may actually strengthen the monopoly position over personal information that U. S. data marketers now enjoy.

HP researchers investigated a new architecture, later named explicitly parallel instruction computing ( EPIC ), that allows the processor to execute multiple instructions in each clock cycle.

EPIC implements a form of very long instruction word ( VLIW ) architecture, in which a single instruction word contains multiple instructions.

With EPIC, the compiler determines in advance which instructions can be executed at the same time, so the microprocessor simply executes the instructions and does not need elaborate mechanisms to determine which instructions to execute in parallel.

HP believed that it was no longer cost-effective for individual enterprise systems companies such as itself to develop proprietary microprocessors, so it partnered with Intel in 1994 to develop the IA-64 architecture, derived from EPIC.

Since Merced was the first EPIC processor, the development effort encountered more unanticipated problems than the team was accustomed to.

For this service, he won the 2003 " Friend of EPIC " award for service to the electronic publishing community.

A complaint filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC ) brought the RemoteSpy software to the FTC ’ s attention.

— the Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC ) objected to this, arguing that it does not take into account email or web addresses, which often contain content in the address information.

* The Flash movie EPIC 2014 concludes in this year.

Outside embedded processing markets, Intel's Itanium IA-64 EPIC appears as the only example of a widely used VLIW CPU architecture.

However, EPIC architecture is sometimes distinguished from a pure VLIW architecture, since EPIC advocates full instruction predication, rotating register files, and a very long instruction word that can encode non-parallel instruction groups.

By the late 1990s, NiMH batteries were being used successfully in many fully electric vehicles, such as the General Motors EV1 and Dodge Caravan EPIC minivan.

There have been several lawsuits such as Hepting v. AT & T and EPIC v. Department of Justice by groups or individuals, opposing certain surveillance activities.

The recent Ethnographic Praxis in Industry ( EPIC ) conference is evidence of this.

Electronic Privacy Information Center ( EPIC ) is a public interest research group in Washington, D. C.

EPIC pursues a wide range of activities, including privacy research, public education, conferences, litigation, publications, and advocacy.

EPIC maintains web sites ( epic. org and privacy. org ) and publishes the online EPIC Alert every two weeks with information about emerging privacy and civil liberties issues.