Documents shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHS’s current surveillance apparatus.

The growing call for AI safety is a good thing. But AI leaders won't give up what they really want.

Devices that can listen and record us are becoming more popular, raising privacy concerns.

This brief explores how existing laws map onto a financial sector increasingly adopting AI, explaining how these tech-agnostic laws continue to govern both financial institutions and the technology companies that partner or compete with them even as AI becomes more deeply integrated into their operations.

Financial institutions are increasingly deploying advanced AI systems to improve service delivery to customers, supporting internal operations, and improving efficiency. These systems aim to support tasks related to customer service, fraud detection, investment analysis, and loan processing. Such developments warrant close examination because decisions made in the financial services industry affect high stakes issues including people's access to credit, the interest rates they're offered, and fraud detection determinations that can risk freezing their accounts.

Stories From The States is a weekly podcast that explores, through personal stories, how people and communities across America are being affected by government decisions. Each episode examines a…

Exploring the real-world challenges of multilingual AI and how technology and policy can advance greater language equity.

OpenAI has hundreds of contractors manually read and review ChatGPT prompts so it can "improve" the responses it gives.

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Do the possibilities presented by an innovative, open, and free internet inspire you? Do you find yourself engaged in passionate discussions about privacy policies? Are you yearning to put your expert...

AI glasses are a double-edged sword for disabled people, who face unique risks from surveillance.

As discussions of an AI slowdown escalate, leaders of AI's top labs may be aligned on where to start: third-party accountability. Leaders from Anthropic, Googl...

Washington, D.C.'s police department has used information from Flock cameras for misconduct investigations, prompting a formal complaint from its officers' union.

MAP-AI is actively seeking expressions of interest from actors across stakeholder groups shaping concrete AI policy proposals that address key human rights risks and opportunities associated with AI to participate in these Working Groups.

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 provides an overview of recent proposals for third-party assessment in the United States, including state and federal legislation, executive actions, and industry proposals.

Having third parties assess AI systems might seem like common sense, but crafting effective policies toward this goal can be devilishly tricky. A poorly-constructed ecosystem for third-party assessmen...

Do the possibilities presented by an innovative, open, and free internet inspire you? Do you find yourself engaged in passionate discussions about privacy policies? Are you yearning to put your expert...

CDT joined AI Now Institute, American Civil Liberties Union, and several organizations dedicated to tech policy, consumer protection, and civil rights in a letter to Senate leadership and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee opposing the “AI Innovation Labs” language in Sec. 10509 of the CLARITY Act.

Jake Laperruque asked nine privacy and civil liberties experts to assess what War on Terror policy has done to rights, oversight and executive power.

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, transformed how American intelligence and law enforcement agencies collect, share and analyze information.