CDT works on a wide range of issues where technology shapes our fundamental rights and freedoms.

This post is the first in a series examining the settlement’s consequences for users’ free speech and privacy rights. Later posts will address the settlement’s age-assurance requirements, its ...

The Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center will host the fifth annual Trust and Safety Research Conference on October 1-2, 2026 at Stanford University. The conference brings together trust and safety ...

CDT filed an amicus brief in New Jersey v. Bryant, calling on the New Jersey Supreme Court to rule a tower dump warrant as an unconstitutional general warrant. Tower dumps are a surveillance technique ...

A number of recent policy proposals seek to catalyze third-party assessment for AI systems, spanning assurance of ordinary deployments of simple AI systems in well-defined use cases to the testing of ...

Rentrée season is in full swing in Brussels, with the State of the Union address, significant developments in the Digital Omnibus process, and crucial implementation milestones under both the AI Act ...

As concern about risks and harms related to AI systems continue to grow, a growing chorus of policymakers, industry leaders, and advocates have called for independent AI assessments. This explainer ...

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) submitted comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on its Guidance and Templates for Public-Facing AI Documentation: An AI ...