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Published on January 24, 2024 - 16:52 GMT

CDT, Alongside 100 Civil Society Organizations, Calls for Human Rights Considerations Amid the UN Ad Hoc Committee’s Cybercrime ...

CDT joined over 100 NGOs in signing a Joint Statement on the proposed Cybercrime Treaty ahead of the concluding session of the UN’s Cybercrime Convention. The advocacy statement emphasizes a need for human-centric principles in the fight against cybercrime …

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Published on January 22, 2024 - 20:45 GMT

CDT Comments to FCC on Re-Imposing Net Neutrality

CDT submitted comments supporting the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s notice of proposed rulemaking proposing to re-impose net neutrality rules on broadband providers. In these comments, CDT argues that the FCC should re-impose the core net …

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Published on January 13, 2024 - 00:15 GMT

Talking Tech with Nabeel Gillani on The Black Box of AI in Education

Graphic for CDT’s podcast, entitled “CDT’s Tech Talks.” Hosted by Jamal Magby, and available on iTunes, Google Play, Soundcloud, Spotify, Stitcher, and TuneIn. Dark grey text and app logos, as well as light blue text, on a white background. In today’s …

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Published on January 4, 2024 - 20:25 GMT

The SAG-AFTRA Strike is Over, But the AI Fight in Hollywood is Just Beginning

The last of the Hollywood strikes formally came to a close on December 5, when the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), the performers’ labor union, ratified its contract with Hollywood studios. As in the …

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Published on December 22, 2023 - 23:00 GMT

CDT Joins Coalition Letter Urging Indian Government to Withdraw Telecommunications Bill to Protect Fundamental Rights

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) – as a member of the Global Encryption Coalition Steering Committee – joined a coalition letter urging the Indian government’s Department of Telecommunications to withdraw the Telecommunications Bill, 2023 to …

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Published on December 21, 2023 - 23:37 GMT

CDT Files Amicus Brief in Stark v. Patreon Supporting the Free Speech and Privacy Protections Provided by the Video Privacy ...

On December 20, CDT filed an amicus brief along with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in Stark v. Patreon in the Northern District of California, arguing that the court should reject a challenge to the facial constitutionality of the Video Privacy …

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Published on December 21, 2023 - 07:12 GMT

The Time Has Come to Recognize the Right to Repair

This article, authored by CDT’s George Slover, first appeared in Competition Policy International’s Antitrust Chronicle on December 11, 2023. A recent feature article in the December edition of Competition Policy International’s Antitrust Chronicle affirms …

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Published on December 20, 2023 - 16:28 GMT

CDT Files Amicus Brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive, in Support of Controlled Digital Lending Efforts and Readers’ Privacy

On December 19, CDT, along with Public Knowledge and the Library Freedom Project, filed an amicus brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive in the Second Circuit with the help of the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at University of …

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Published on December 19, 2023 - 23:13 GMT

EU Tech Policy Brief: December 2023

This is the December 2023 issue of the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe‘s monthly Tech Policy Brief. It highlights some of the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe, the U.S., and internationally, and gives …

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Published on December 18, 2023 - 22:45 GMT

Brief – Late Applications: Disproportionate Effects of Generative AI-Detectors on English Learners

[ PDF Version ] CDT recently released legal research on the application of civil rights laws to uses of education data and technology, including AI. As the use of generative AI increases both inside and outside the classroom, one group of students at …

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Published on December 18, 2023 - 22:45 GMT

The Shortcomings of Generative AI Detection: How Schools Should Approach Declining Teacher Trust In Students

[ PDF version ] Generative AI – systems that use machine learning to produce new content (e.g., text or images) in response to user prompts – has infiltrated the education system and fundamentally shifted the relationships between teachers and their …

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Published on December 15, 2023 - 00:25 GMT

CDT Comments on Global Privacy Control and Colorado’s Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms

This week, CDT filed comments with the Colorado Attorney General regarding Colorado’s recognition of universal opt-out mechanisms as described by the Colorado Privacy Act. The 2021 law grants Colorado consumers important new rights with respect to their …

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Published on December 14, 2023 - 19:26 GMT

CDT Sends Letter to Senate Antitrust Hearing on Pricing Algorithms

CDT sent a letter to the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee for a December 13 hearing on The New Invisible Hand? The Impact of Algorithms on Competition and Consumer Rights. It references our blog post on artificial intelligence as a new gateway to collusion, a …

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Published on December 14, 2023 - 19:26 GMT

CDT Welcomes Rollout of Encryption-by-Default for Facebook Messenger

On December 6, Meta Platforms announced that it has begun rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) by default for 1:1 messaging on Facebook Messenger. This welcome change will come to fruition over the next few months, eventually covering all …

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Published on December 13, 2023 - 23:34 GMT

It’s Time to Standardize the Global Privacy Control

CDT Policy Fellow Cami Goray also contributed to this post. Think of the number of times your website browsing experience has been interrupted by a cookie banner request for your consent to tracking. If you’ve felt frustrated by the need to jump through …

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Published on December 13, 2023 - 23:34 GMT

Let LLMs Do the Talking? Generative AI Issues in Government Chatbots

The White House thinks the government often wastes people’s time. In 2021, the Biden Administration issued Executive Order (EO) 14058, which recognized that the government’s customer service experience was lacking. Part of the fix is for agencies to …

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Published on December 13, 2023 - 18:29 GMT

How Online Behavioral Advertising Harms People

By Sauvik Das, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University and CDT Non-Resident Fellow and Yuxi Wu, PhD candidate, Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing Disclaimer: The views expressed by CDT’s Non-Resident Fellows are their own and do not …

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Published on December 12, 2023 - 22:51 GMT

CDT Joins Coalition Letter Calling Out Serious Concerns With “No Section 230 Immunity for AI Act”

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) joined a coalition letter expressing serious concerns about the “No Section 230 Immunity for AI Act” (S. 1993). S. 1993 would threaten freedom of expression, content moderation, and innovation. Far from …

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Published on December 9, 2023 - 01:37 GMT

A Trojan Horse in a House Intel Committee Bill Massively Expands FISA 702 Surveillance

Snuck into bill is text that could conscript a huge range of businesses for mass surveillance Tucked away near the end of the bill the House Intelligence Committee reported on December 7 (H.R. 6611, the “HPSCI bill”) is a provision that would dramatically …

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Published on December 8, 2023 - 22:05 GMT

CDT Europe Joins Coalition Letter Calling on the EU to Ensure Protection of Human Rights in AI Act

CDT Europe joined a coalition of civil society organisations and experts calling on the EU AI Act negotiators to ensure protection of human rights in the forthcoming AI Act. *** From the letter: EU lawmakers are being pressured by governments and security …

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