LETTER: CDT-Led Coalition of 50+ Rights Groups Urges Administration Not to Allow Local Police to Use Federal Support for Abortion Investigations & Prosecutions
A CDT-led coalition of 54 civil and human rights, civil liberties, and reproductive rights organizations published a letter today urging the Administration to make sure that support given by federal law enforcement to local police is not used to investigate and prosecute abortions. The federal government provides assistance such as facilitating demands for communications records, breaking into data encrypted on cell phones and computers, and reformatting seized digital records.
CDT has explained in a four-part series how these powerful forms of surveillance support local police work, and how, going forward, they could be used to investigate and prosecute reproductive health choices in states that ban abortion. Now, this broad coalition is pressing the Administration to follow through on its commitment to reproductive rights by ensuring that federal aid to state and local law enforcement is not co-opted for abortion surveillance.
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.
