Center for Democracy & Technology

Center for Democracy & Technology

State-Level Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Data Practices
State-Level Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity Data Practices
Join the Movement Advancement Project (MAP), the Center for Democracy & Technology, and Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy for a webinar on advancing responsible sexual orientation and gend
Public Data, Public Concern: Rethinking Government Accountability in the Digital Age
Public Data, Public Concern: Rethinking Government Accountability in the Digital Age
Recent research published by the Center for Democracy & Technology shows that 74 percent of Americans are concerned about the privacy and security of their personal data that is held by the govern
CDT Working Groups Exclusive: Court Enjoins “Supply Chain Risk” Designation of Anthropic
CDT Working Groups Exclusive: Court Enjoins “Supply Chain Risk” Designation of Anthropic
On March 16, the federal district court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction (PI) against the Department of Defense (Department) for designating Anthropic a “supp...
When Commercial Data Becomes Evidence: Health Privacy & Corporate Responsibility Post-Roe
When Commercial Data Becomes Evidence: Health Privacy & Corporate Responsibility Post-Roe
Data privacy has emerged as a pressing issue for both employees and consumers, yet only 14% of Americans believe that companies can be trusted to use their data with their best interests in mind. E...
Webinar "Effective Redress for AI Harms in Europe" by CDT Europe & Hermes Center
Webinar "Effective Redress for AI Harms in Europe" by CDT Europe & Hermes Center
On 19 February, we hosted a webinar co-organised with the Hermes Center on “Effective Redress for AI Harms in Europe: Charting a Path Forward”. Our Legal and Advocacy Officer Magdalena Maier pres...
CDT's Amy Winecoff – Symptoms to Systems: Expert-Guided Approach to AI Risks for Eating Disorders
CDT's Amy Winecoff – Symptoms to Systems: Expert-Guided Approach to AI Risks for Eating Disorders
Amy Winecoff, Senior Technologist on CDT's AI Governance Lab, walks viewers through the results of recent research as part of a submission to the Association for Computing Machinery's Computer-Huma...
Benchmarking Beyond Borders: Making AI Testing Truly Global
Benchmarking Beyond Borders: Making AI Testing Truly Global
Current evaluation approaches used by AI model developers often fall short when tasked with assessing and improving model performance in non-English languages and contexts. Researchers around the w...
Advocating with Evidence: Lessons for Tech Researchers in Civil Society
Advocating with Evidence: Lessons for Tech Researchers in Civil Society
As technology and the tech industry evolve, civil society is struggling to address the unintended consequences of change, including tools that can be used to erode democracy, amplify bias, and acce...
The Future of Speech Online 2025: The Age of Constitutional Evasion. Day 2
The Future of Speech Online 2025: The Age of Constitutional Evasion. Day 2
Governments have always worked to shape the speech of private parties and these efforts have always threatened overcensorship of dissent and governmentally disfavored viewpoints. The current Admini...
The Future of Speech Online 2025: The Age of Constitutional Evasion.
The Future of Speech Online 2025: The Age of Constitutional Evasion.
Governments have always worked to shape the speech of private parties and these efforts have always threatened overcensorship of dissent and governmentally disfavored viewpoints. The current Admini...
The Future of Speech Online 2025: The Age of Constitutional Evasion
The Future of Speech Online 2025: The Age of Constitutional Evasion
Governments have always worked to shape the speech of private parties and these efforts have always threatened overcensorship of dissent and governmentally disfavored viewpoints. The current Admini...
[Swahili] Interrogating Content Moderation in Indigenous & Low-Resources Lang., Global South
[Swahili] Interrogating Content Moderation in Indigenous & Low-Resources Lang., Global South
How do content moderation systems operate in non-English contexts, particularly low-resource languages of the Majority World? While there is a growing body of research on content moderation systems...
Interrogating Content Moderation Systems in Indigenous & Low-resource Languages of the Global South
Interrogating Content Moderation Systems in Indigenous & Low-resource Languages of the Global South
How do content moderation systems operate in non-English contexts, particularly low-resource languages of the Majority World? While there is a growing body of research on content moderation systems...
Interrogating content moderation systems in indigenous & low-resource languages of the Global South
Interrogating content moderation systems in indigenous & low-resource languages of the Global South
How do content moderation systems operate in non-English contexts, particularly low-resource languages of the Majority World? While there is a growing body of research on content moderation systems...
Who Will Fight for the First Amendment? Protecting Free Expression at a Critical Time
Who Will Fight for the First Amendment? Protecting Free Expression at a Critical Time
On the day of his second Inauguration, President Trump issued an Executive Order, entitled Restoring Free Speech and Ending Federal Censorship. Since that moment, he and members of his Administrati...
Offensive speech & hate speech targeted at Congressional Candidates in the 2024 Election
Offensive speech & hate speech targeted at Congressional Candidates in the 2024 Election
Women of color candidates continue to be underrepresented in Congress while also facing significant challenges in running for office. One of these challenges includes the kinds of offensive and hat...
The Future of Speech Online 2024: AI, Elections, & Speech Day 2
The Future of Speech Online 2024: AI, Elections, & Speech Day 2
In the United States, courts, regulators, and lawmakers are all grappling with efforts to protect the integrity of elections and support voters’ access to authoritative election information, while ...
The Future of Speech Online 2024: AI, Elections, & Speech Day 1
The Future of Speech Online 2024: AI, Elections, & Speech Day 1
In the United States, courts, regulators, and lawmakers are all grappling with efforts to protect the integrity of elections and support voters’ access to authoritative election information, while ...
CDT Europe Hosts DSA Civil Society Roundtable - Participant Interviews
CDT Europe Hosts DSA Civil Society Roundtable - Participant Interviews
On the 17th of April, CDT Europe and Open Government Partnership held the Fifth #DSA Civil Society Roundtable Series event in Brussels. As the #DigitalServicesAct (DSA) finally comes into full forc...
Exploring Ways Forward to Combat Spyware in the EU
Exploring Ways Forward to Combat Spyware in the EU
Join us on the 15th of May for a crucial online high-level event addressing the aftermath of the Pegasus spyware scandal and its worldwide impact. In 2021, the Pegasus scandal sent shockwaves aroun...