The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has dramatically upended privacy rights in America, and raised the specter of broad surveillance and investigation of individuals’ reproductive health care choices. One important aspect of this new risk of government monitoring is how federal government aid resources could be used for abortion surveillance.
The Biden Administration has expressed a strong commitment to protecting access to reproductive health care, but a host of federal law enforcement systems and programs are designed to provide surveillance and investigative support to state and local law enforcement, with no restrictions on that support being co-opted to monitor and prosecute reproductive health decisions.
This series of blog posts examines several different types of federal surveillance and investigative aid that are especially vulnerable to being used in such a manner, the danger those uses pose, and steps the federal government can take to prevent it. In December 2022, CDT led a group of over 50 civil and human rights, civil liberties, and reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations in calling on the Administration to take action on this issue.
In this brief, CDT Europe delves into the disadvantages that a criminalisation approach may have when it comes to TFGBV and explore the opportunities non-criminal redress mechanisms offers for redress.
Coalition Urges Senate Not to Let Companies Waive Financial Regulations for AI
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.
Potential Avenues for Redress for AI-related Harms under EU Equality and Non-Discrimination law: A Visual Explanation
In this third instalment of the series, we look at the opportunities afforded by EU equality and non-discrimination law in providing redress for AI-related harms.
CDT-led Coalition Calls for Transparency for White House AI Framework
CDT and Americans for Responsible Innovation led a broad, bipartisan coalition of over two dozen civil society groups in calling on the White House to release its Framework for review of frontier AI models.
