Jake Laperruque explains how ICE’s expanding surveillance tools can track protesters through phones, faces, and vehicles.

Platforms must invest the time and effort necessary to protect users and meaningfully respond to image-based sexual abuse, writes CDT's Becca Branum.

In this explainer, we highlight the potential harms associated with the federal government’s unprecedented efforts to access state administrative data

Harvard faculty testify in a federal lawsuit over free speech and deportations.

Tomorrow, Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York will convene an in-person conference between the parties in the New York Times Co. v. OpenAI cop...

Also contributed to by CDT Intern Sydney Brinker In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and subsequent state laws that criminalize abortion, patients are at heightened risk that their health care providers will turn over sensitive reproductive health information to law enforcement for abortion-related investigations. In response […]

For a second year, the Pulitzer Prizes required applicants to divulge AI usage — one winner and three finalists disclosed.

Wikipedia is facing another threat.

DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, an IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

Critics argue that public broadcasting is biased. But year after year, surveys show that PBS is the most trusted source of news in America. | Opinion

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The Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people i...

The Trump administration has launched a brazen attack on elections, which could disenfranchise millions and usurp the constitutional role of Congress.

President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.

Today, President Trump fired the Democratic commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission in a destructive partisan attack on the nation’s primary consumer protection agency. The FTC is now the latest...

President Donald Trump’s firing of the former chairwoman of the National Labor Relations Board was an “illegal act,” a federal judge ruled Thursday, overturning her ousting in a decision that was high...

Meiner is introducing city legislation that seeks to terminate the lease agreement with the cinema, which rents space from the city.

CDT’s AI Governance Lab develops and promotes the adoption of robust, technically-informed solutions for the effective regulation and governance of AI systems.

[ PDF version ] Executive Summary Governments and policymakers increasingly expect practitioners developing and using AI systems in both consumer and public sector settings to proactively identify and...

The Future of Privacy Forum’s 15th Annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award Recognizes Influential Privacy Research February 3, 2025 — Today, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) — a global non-profit focused on data protection headquartered in Washington, D.C. — announced the winners of its 15th annual Privacy Papers for…

Karen Kornbluh is a visiting fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology. She served until January as Principal Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer and Director of the National Artificial Intelligence Office. Ambassador Kornbluh has held leadership positions in government, business, and nonprofits. She previously served as Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and […]