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Graphic for a joint CDT and Kiva Centers webinar, entitled “Big Brother Meets Bedlam: Resisting Mental Health Surveillance Tech.” Monday, October 17, 2022 at 3:30 pm ET / 12:30 pm Pacific. Register at cdt.org/events.

Big Brother Meets Bedlam: Resisting Mental Health Surveillance Tech

February 2, 2023

CDT Comments to FTC Regarding Prevalent Commercial Surveillance Practices that Harm Consumers. White document on grey background.

CDT Comments to FTC Regarding Prevalent Commercial Surveillance Practices that Harm Consumers

November 21, 2022

Disabled People Need Critical Privacy Protections in ADPPA

October 17, 2022

CDT Experts Provide Testimony Before FTC’s Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Public Forum

September 13, 2022

Following the Overturning of Roe v Wade, Action is Needed to Protect Health Data

Press Release: Shining a Light on How Surveillance Tech Discriminates Against Disabled People

Surveillance Tech Discriminates Against Disabled People: New CDT Report

Cover for CDT report, entitled "Ableism And Disability Discrimination In New Surveillance Technologies: How new surveillance technologies in education, policing, health care, and the workplace disproportionately harm disabled people." A human silhouette, formed by the combination of different collections of pixelized data points generated through the surveillance in the contexts of education, policing, health care, and the workplace. A faint grid, changing from light blue to white, sits behind the silhouette demonstrating the ever-present data collection.

Ableism And Disability Discrimination In New Surveillance Technologies: How new surveillance technologies in education, policing, health care, and the workplace disproportionately harm disabled people

EVV Threatens Disabled People’s Privacy and Dignity — Whether We Need Care, or Work as Professional Caregivers

Protecting Disabled People’s Privacy is a Civil Rights Issue: Lydia X. Z. Brown’s Remarks Before the NTIA’s Listening Session on Civil Rights, Privacy, and Data

December 14, 2021

Graphic for the cover of CDT's report, entitled "Warning: Bossware May Be Hazardous to Your Health." Dark grainy background with white text overlaid, and a graphic of a grey computer levitating above a desk and omitting an ominous orange and pink light.

Report – Warning: Bossware May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Screen shot of the open letter from Fight for the Future and other civil rights and youth advocacy orgs, calling on schools to ban eproctoring programs.

CDT Joins Fight for the Future, Other Civil Rights & Youth Advocacy Orgs in Calling on Schools to Ban Eproctoring Programs