CDT Joins Letter Urging Bangladesh Telecomms Commission to Withdraw Regulation for Digital, Social Media, and OTT Platforms
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has joined more than 40 global NGOs in a letter, spearheaded by AccessNow, that urges the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to withdraw a draft Regulation for Digital, Social Media and OTT Platforms.
The Regulation, which is similar to Intermediary Guidelines adopted last year in India, would require intermediaries to block content that is “insulting” or “harmful” or “offensive” — vague terms that invite excess blocking of speech. Its message traceability requirement would undermine encryption and chill free expression.
Not All Guardrails Are Created Equal: Comparing Content Safety and Copyright Filtering
As courts and policymakers work through questions about chatbot liability, they should be wary of analogies that flatten meaningful technical differences. Copyright filtering and safety intervention share real challenges around ambiguity and evasion, but they diverge in what each control must assess, how each manifests over the course of a conversation, and how much can be verified from the outside.
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.
CDT Amicus Brief Calls on Fourth Circuit to Rein In Geofence Warrants
Earlier this year the Supreme Court ruled in Chatrie v United States that the Fourth Amendment protected all cell phone location information, which CDT lauded as a landmark decision, but sent the case back down to the Fourth Circuit to assess the propriety of the geofence warrant at issue.
CDT and Partners Post Floor Alert Opposing CA SB 1013 Automated License Plate Readers Bill
The best way to ensure that Automated License Plate Readers are not abused is to limit the retention of stored data and to keep loopholes to lawful process closed. CA SB 1013 is a step in the wrong direction, and we urge the California legislature to reject this approach.
