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

AI companies are fitfully beginning to offer users options for downloading and uploading their AI conversation data, creating the possibility of AI data portability: the ability to move data between ...

Mere months after 60 leading academics asked it to recuse itself from handling digital files owing to a poor track record of digital flights protection, the Irish presidency of the Council of the ...

The growing use of AI-powered voter outreach through text messaging is moving faster than the legal frameworks meant to govern it. The most direct tool available, the federal Telephone Consumer ...

Against a backdrop of deadly summer heatwaves and large-scale wildfires throughout Europe, the European Union is moving ahead with plans to fund and build major data centres to power AI. As these ...

CDT joined a set of 30 civil society organizations in calling on leaders of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees to highlight a new multi-year agreement between the Department of ...

The 2026 legislative session has shown a continued but shifted focus on the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), with most bills — both introduced and passed — grappling with the rise and use ...

Next week, CDT — along with a broad cohort of tech and policy experts from civil society, the internet publishing world, search engine providers, AI labs, commercial data collectors, digital ...

When a court is deciding whether someone goes to prison, whether a company pays for a defective product, or whether the government violated a person’s constitutional rights, the evidence supporting ...

Vulnerabilities in voting systems are real and worth fixing. At the same time, the manner in which they are used to fearmonger does not reflect the actual security of elections. Security researchers ...

Authorship lead by CDT Non-Resident Fellow Thessalia Merivaki. One of the most reassuring takeaways from the 2024 election year, which was termed “the year of AI elections,” was the absence of ...

This is the second piece in CDT’s “AI In Policing” series, in which we explore how police use various AI technologies for surveillance and investigations, the risks posed, and how we should respond.