In November, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released draft guidance for governance and risk management for federal agencies’ use of AI, as required under Executive Order 14110 and prior executive actions and legislation. Numerous civil society …
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is pleased to announce the addition of eight new distinguished researchers to our Non-Resident Fellows Program. This year’s cohort includes scholars from diverse organizations and backgrounds, highlighting …
On December 8, the European Commission opened a public consultation for a draft Implementing Regulation under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), for the transparency reports on the content moderation engaged in by all providers of intermediary services and …
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 …
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 …
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has been tracking efforts across the country to regulate automated employment decision systems (AEDS) and electronic management and automated management (ESAM) systems. Last week, the Washington House of …
CDT provided recommendations to the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security on transparency and policy around federal law enforcement use of facial recognition, in response to an October 13 request by the agencies for written submissions. In our …
In September 2021, CDT joined the cybersecurity community to sign onto a Multistakeholder Manifesto, emphasizing human-centric principles for a rights-respecting criminal justice framework. Our intention was to influence the UN’s Cybercrime Convention to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
On December 21, CDT joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation to file an amicus brief in Murthy v. Missouri in the Supreme Court. In that case, state attorneys general and a handful of social media users have claimed that the White House and various …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Center for Democracy & Technology joined a global coalition of civil society organisations in signing a joint letter calling on the Australian government to “reconsider draft online safety industry standards that threaten to undermine the use of …
[ 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 …
[ 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 …
[ PDF version ] Generative AI systems trained on large amounts of existing data use machine learning to produce new content (e.g., text or images) in response to user prompts. In education, generative AI is most often talked about in the context of …
