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Pamela Wisniewski, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University Tangila Islam Tanni, Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Central FloridaMamtaj Akter, Assistant Professor, New York Institute of TechnologyMary Jean Amon, Assistant Professor, Indiana University Disclaimer: The views expressed...
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Section 230 and its Applicability to Generative AI: A Legal Analysis
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By: CDT Intern Noor Waheed Introduction The rise of Generative AI in the world of technology, especially within the last year, has unsurprisingly led to myriad questions and concerns regarding its responsible governance in policy spaces across the political spectrum. One such hotly debated...
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2023 Annual Report: A Vision for Responsible, Rights-Respecting AI
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In 2023, no topic in technology was hotter than artificial intelligence. Generative AI products like ChatGPT, Bard, Midjourney, and a suite of tools powered by large language models entered widespread public use, prompting speculation about how AI technologies would shape every aspect of...
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All Grown Up: Enforcing children's privacy in an evolving regulatory environment
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Date: November 14, 2024 Time: 12:00-13:30 EST All Grown Up: Enforcing children’s privacy in an evolving regulatory environment Join the South Florida KnowledgeNet Chapter for a lunchtime fireside chat with Dona Fraser, Senior Vice President, Privacy Initiatives, BBB National Programs, with guest...
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NDII Victims Deserve Help. Let’s Build an Effective Takedown System.
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CDT Europe is publishing a joint statement with a coalition of civil society organisations calling on the VLOPs and VLOSEs to publish all information about the risk assessment and auditing processes under the DSA. Meaningful transparency of risk assessments and audits enables external...
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The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is seeking an experienced tech policy advocate to spearhead the development and implementation of CDT’s state-level strategy, coordinating the organization’s engagement with state-level policymakers and allied organizations throughout the United...
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DHS Must Come Clean on Contract with Spyware Purveyor Paragon Solutions
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The Center for Democracy & Technology has joined 35 other civil society organizations and a number of spyware experts in a letter that calls on the Department of Homeland Security to release details about its $2 million contract with Paragon Solutions (US) Inc. Paragon is a spyware vendor...
on Nov 6
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CDT joined a letter with other civil society organizations analyzing the harm that data brokers cause to consumers in the financial services industry, and urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to move forward its rulemaking on the application of the Fair Credit Reporting Act to data...
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Report – Hated More: Online Violence Targeting Women of Color Candidates in the 2024 US Election
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Report also authored by Müge Finkel, Director, Ford Institute for Human Security, GSPIA, University of Pittsburgh. With contributions bySteven Finkel, Daniel Wallace Professor of Political Science, University of PittsburghFirat Duruşan, PhD, Center for Computational Social Sciences, Koç...
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(WASHINGTON) — The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) today marked the one-year anniversary of President Joe Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. CDT was a leading voice advocating for the Biden Administration to issue...
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Key Questions for Europe’s Commissioners Nominees on Privacy, Security, and Rights
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Online Expression and Civic Spacence" class="toc-anchor">Security and Surveillance72/european-parliament-hearings-with-commissioners-designate-to-start-on-4-november">European Parliament will hold hearings to confirm the incoming European Commissioners. As part of this process, nominees have...
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Helping Election Officials Combat Election Misinformation: A Course Developed by CDT and CTCL
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In July, CDT partnered with the Center for Tech and Civic Life to create a new course addressing the spread of inaccurate information about election procedures, which may have a harmful voter-suppressive effect. CDT and CTCL delivered the course to dozens of election officials across the...
on Nov 4
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Talking Tech on Bias and Equity in AI Systems with Alexandra Givens & Raffi Krikorian
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In this episode, we explore the vital topic of bias and equity in AI systems. Joining the conversation are two esteemed guests: Raffi Krikorian, Chief Technology Officer at the Emerson Collective, and Host of Technically Optimistic, and Alexandra Givens, President and CEO of the Center for...
on Oct 30
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Date: Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024 Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT Join on Wednesday, October 30 at 2pm ET for an important conversation on diversity, equity, and inclusion: Who is Behind Attacks on DEI? There are so many positives to incorporating DEI practices and trainings into the workplace from...
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Centering Disability in Mitigating Harms of Bluetooth Tracking Technology
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Bluetooth location-tracking devices like Apple AirTags and Tile trackers are an increasingly popular way for people to locate their misplaced items. Unfortunately, stalkers and abusers are also misusing these devices to surreptitiously track people. Your iPhone or Android device may be able to...
on Oct 25
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FWD50: Ensuring Responsible Procurement of AI
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Date: November 4, 2024 Time: 11:10 AM EST – 11:35 AM EST Government spending on artificial intelligence (AI) has reached unprecedented levels. In fiscal year 2022, the United States government awarded over $2 billion in contracts to private companies that provide services that rely on AI, and...
on Oct 24
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CDT Europe at the Tech and Society Summit
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On October 1, CDT Europe, in collaboration with over 40 civil society organisations, co-hosted the Tech and Society Summit in Brussels. This landmark event provided a platform for nonprofit organisations to address a range of urgent issues, including digital rights, climate action, corporate...
on Oct 23
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Beyond High-Risk Scenarios: Recentering the Everyday Risks of AI
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Beyond Severity: Rethinking the Goalposts of AI Risk Governance"#4-quality-of-service-harms" class="toc-anchor">4. Quality-of-Service Harms-in-platformized-environmentnbsp" href="#3-reduced-visibility-in-platformized-environmentnbsp" class="toc-anchor">3. Reduced Visibility in Platformized...
on Oct 22
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Beyond English-Centric AI: Lessons on Community Participation from Non-English NLP Groups
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This report brief was authored by Evani Radiya-Dixit, CDT Summer Fellow for the CDT AI Governance Lab. Many leading language models are trained on nearly a thousand times more English text compared to text in other languages. These disparities in large language models have real-world impacts,...
on Oct 21
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Encrypt Today to Safeguard Tomorrow: The Encryption Summit
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Encrypt Today to Safeguard Tomorrow: The Encryption Summitt" href="#encrypt-today-to-safeguard-tomorrow-the-encryption-summit" class="toc-anchor">Encrypt Today to Safeguard Tomorrow: The Encryption Summit We live in a golden age of encryption, when more people have access to this key security...
on Oct 18
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Elections & Democracy Archives
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In our Election Security and Privacy Project, CDT seeks to identify and update election cybersecurity practices and work through potential remedies in a few critical areas: state voter registration systems, election auditing, and campaign data.
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Op-Ed: Age Verification Technology Would Create New Barriers for Young Disabled People
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CDT’s Aliya Bhatia and Ariana Aboulafia collaborated on a new op-ed that first appeared in Teen Vogue on September 24, 2024. Read an excerpt: Online communities are critical for young people with disabilities. Many disabled people rely on online spaces to get information on diagnoses and...
on Oct 17
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The internet and new technologies give individuals the ability to publish and receive information, participate in political processes, and share knowledge. CDT has fought to extend the highest level of free speech protections to the internet and to keep new technologies free of government...
on Oct 17
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Warrantless surveillance authorized by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) pulls in the private communications of a huge number of Americans, however the total number affected has gone unrecorded for far too long. For over a decade members of Congress and civil...
on Oct 17
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The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has submitted a comment in response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) call for comments on the second public draft of revision four of the Digital Identity Guidelines (Special Publication 800-63). CDT is pleased to see that...
on Oct 17
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Date: October 11, 2024 Time: 2:30 – 3:30 pm ET CDT’s Elizabeth Laird will speak on a panel titled “Navigating Complex Data Challenges: Beyond Privacy and Cybersecurity.” This panel will explore the multifaceted legal challenges surrounding data management that go beyond traditional privacy and...
on Oct 17
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CDT Joins Amicus Brief Urging Rehearing in Anderson v. TikTok
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On Monday, CDT joined an amicus brief led by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), standing alongside the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), Public Knowledge, Reason Foundation, and Wikimedia Foundation in support of petition for rehearing en banc in Anderson v. TikTok. In...
on Oct 8
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Technologist Lorrie Cranor Join CDT Board of Directors
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(WASHINGTON) — The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is pleased to welcome Dr. Lorrie Cranor to its Board of Directors. Dr. Cranor is an expert in privacy, security, and public policy currently on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University. “I couldn’t be happier to have Dr. Cranor join the...
on Oct 8
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Tech Talks: Talking Tech with Jen Caltrider & Michal Luria on AI Companions
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AI chatbots have quickly taken the world by storm with more people than ever integrating them into their daily lives. Many are familiar with the big name chatbots that can write recipes as Shakespearean poems or summarize obscure topics. But one type of chatbot, AI romantic companions, are less...
on Oct 8
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Insights from a Child Safety Online Symposium: Bridging Research and Policy
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Last week, CDT hosted a symposium with an expert group of academics, child safety researchers, digital rights advocates, and government representatives. These experts were convened with the goal of fostering collaboration between research and policy experts toward finding meaningful,...
on Oct 7
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EU Tech Policy Brief: September 2024
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Welcome back to the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe‘s Tech Policy Brief. This edition covers the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe and gives CDT’s perspective on the impact to digital rights. To sign up for CDT Europe’s AI newsletter, please...
on Oct 7
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Round Table | AI Ethics for Persons with Disabilities: 11:15 am – 12:15 pm ET Round Table | AI Ethics for Persons with Disabilities Equitable and ethical use of AI technologies remains high on the agenda of advocates, technology companies, and policymakers participating in the M-Enabling Summit....
on Oct 5
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CDT Europe Calls on European Commission to Uphold Children's Fundamental Rights
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Online services are a critical venue for young people to exercise their fundamental rights to access information and express themselves freely. Through these services, young people gain access to online communities and peer support, find supplemental educational resources, boost their literacy...
on Oct 5
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CDT Supports Independent Researchers Speaking Truth to Power
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Free expression is the cornerstone of democratic societies, but speaking truth to power can be an inherently risky activity. This sobering reality is well understood by journalists and human rights defenders around the world, and increasingly by researchers in academia and civil society as well....
on Oct 4
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From Surveillance to Sousveillance: Designing Data Tools to Empower Platform-based Gig Workers
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The need for worker input and researchect-sousveillance-tool-design" href="#how-these-differences-might-affect-sousveillance-tool-design" class="toc-anchor">How these differences might affect sousveillance tool designlass="toc-anchor">Key differences in types of gig...
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CDT Europe Leads Coalition to Combat Spyware Abuse Across the EU
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(BRUSSELS) — As the new European Commission prepares to take office, the Centre for Democracy and Technology Europe (CDT Europe) announces today the official launch of a Spyware Coordination Group, composed of 15 leading civil society and journalists organisations. This initiative aims to combat...
on Oct 2
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Technology as Policy: Hidden Rules and How to Reveal Them
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By Jenny L. Davis, Professor of Sociology, Vanderbilt University Disclaimer: The views expressed by CDT’s Non-Resident Fellows are their own and do not necessarily reflect the policy, position, or views of CDT. I know we’ve moved on and a new contest looms, but for a moment, revisit the June ’24...
on Sep 30
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This week, I was honored to take part in a 30th anniversary celebration of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the international standards body for the web. The W3C’s birthday is coming up on October 1, and I was part of a group that gathered in California – as well as many more joining online […]
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Moderating Maghrebi Arabic Content on Social Media
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Introduction People express their deepest desires, emotions, and imaginative ideas through language. However, Global North languages, particularly English, dominate in knowledge-sharing and technology. This has led to the marginalization of, and inadequate support for, Global South languages in...
on Sep 27
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The Center for Democracy & Technology has joined over 120 other NGOs in opposing H.R. 9495, a bill that would grant the Treasury Department the authority to revoke the tax exempt status of an organization without due process and with a substantial risk that revocation decisions would be...
on Sep 26
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Bespoke Pricing – What Is the Invisible Hand Up To?
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CDT has previously written about the increased risks of collusion enabled by the growing power and capabilities of data supercharged by artificial intelligence.[1] A corollary exposure to consumers courtesy of untrammeled data collection and powerful algorithms is enabling a seller to tailor the...
on Sep 26
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Report – In Deep Trouble: Surfacing Tech-Powered Sexual Harassment in K-12 Schools
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Executive Summary Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools continue to capture the imagination, but increasingly the technology’s damaging potential is revealing itself. An often problematic use of generative AI is in the creation and distribution of deepfakes online, especially because the...
on Sep 26
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CDT Research Reveals Widespread Tech-Powered Sexual Harassment in K-12 Public Schools
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New survey research shows that approximately 2.3 million public high schools students have experience with deepfake non-consensual intimate imagery at their school (WASHINGTON, DC) — The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) today published new survey research that uncovers the extensive...
on Sep 26
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Report – Improving Governance Outcomes Through AI Documentation: Bridging Theory and Practice
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Executive Summary AI documentation is a foundational tool for governing AI systems, via both stakeholders within and outside AI organizations. It offers a range of stakeholders insight into how AI systems are developed, how they function, and what risks they may pose. For example, it might help...
on Sep 25
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Date: September 25, 2024 Time: 2 – 2:50 pm ET Join CDT’s Maddy Dwyer for a virtual discussion titled, “Off Task: Ed Tech Trends, Effects on Student Privacy and Well Being in the Age of AI.” Educational data and technology (ed tech) are becoming entrenched in K-12 schools, and are poised to be used in […]
on Sep 24
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Brief - Generating Confusion: Stress-Testing AI Chatbot Responses on Voting with a Disability
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[ PDF version ] Introduction Even as the “year of elections” draws to a close, the United States’ elections loom. From cyberattacks to mis- and disinformation spread on social media by foreign and domestic actors, digital technology has impacted the discourse, information environment, and...
on Sep 24
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A Conversation on Public Opinion on AI
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Time: 7:30am – 9:00am ET Date: Thursday, September 26, 2024 Public trust in AI is sinking as regulators grapple with urgent calls to govern the rapidly growing industry while tech companies and social media platforms rush to roll out new AI-driven tools. At the same time, the uncertainty and...
on Sep 23
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CDT Files Amicus Brief in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, Challenging TX Age Verification Law
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CDT, in coalition with New America’s Open Technology Institute, The Internet Society, Professor Daniel Weitzner, Professor Eran Tomer, and Professor Sarah Scheffler, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court with the assistance of Keker, Van Nest & Peters in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. In...
on Sep 23
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Date: October 2, 2024 Time: 9:30am to 11am ET 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 hate speech they are subject to on social media...
on Sep 20