CDT Letter to California Senate Committee Highlights Need for Effective Privacy Protections in Pro-competition BASED Act
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) sent a letter to the California Senate Committee on Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection, strongly supporting the pro-competition goals of the Blocking Anticompetitive Self-preferencing by Entrenched Dominant Platforms (BASED) Act, but also highlighting the importance of adding effective privacy, security, and safety protections, and asking that the Committee take the time to review and amend the BASED Act to incorporate these protections.
The letter identifies several potential privacy and security harms that could result, absent these additional protections, from requiring large tech platforms to provide open access and interoperability for all third parties.
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.
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.
British Public Oppose Secret Surveillance Powers and Want Strong Protections for Encrypted Communications
CDT released nationally representative polling data revealing that a the British public are broadly concerned about the security, privacy, and free speech consequences of allowing law enforcement to access encrypted communications.
The Center for Democracy and Technology has joined with civil society partners to oppose California’s SB 690, which would amend the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) to retroactively remove private rights of action against companies using pen registries to track individuals.
