EPIC Announces Privacy Threat Index

submicron writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center or EPIC announced today a Privacy Threat Index patterned after the Office of Homeland Security's Homeland Security Threat Index. This Privacy Threat Index is intended to track the growing threat to personal privacy and present it in an easy-to-understand index. EPIC assesses the current threat level as Yellow based on events over the past year. These factors include expanded use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveilance Act, the decision of the FBI to relax the legally mandated accuracy requirement for the National Crime Information Center (NIPC) and increased funding for surveillance systems including immigration control and video surveillance."