To mitigate harms and harness the potential of data portability to help students when they change schools, education practitioners and companies should adopt a data minimization approach that limits data collection, sharing, and access to only what is necessary to improve outcomes for students when they change schools.
Read More Read MoreCDT submitted comments to the FCC in response to its potential rulemaking proceeding to ban the use of E-rate funds for constructing additional fiber networks when one fiber network is already in place. From our perspective, this proposal raises serious concerns and is unlikely to be in the public’s interest.
Read More Read MoreThe Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) respectfully submits the following comments to the Department of Culture, Media, and Sport’s consultation on Online Harms.
Read More Read MoreCDT submitted comments as part of the Bermuda Regulatory Authority’s Open Internet Consultation. CDT believes that the Regulatory Authority of Bermuda has crafted a strong set of proposals that are likely to provide adequate safeguards to preserve internet openness. We generally take a positive view of all the proposals in the consultation document and offer more specific recommendations on the policies for zero-rating, traffic management, ISP obligations, and end-users’ right to access and distribute content of their choice.
Read More Read MoreCDT sent a letter to Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey in support of Election Security Grants in the Fiscal Year 2020 Financial Services and General Government Funding Bill.
Read More Read MoreCDT joined over 100 other organizations to urge the Senate to listen to the American public and to immediately bring the Save the Internet Act (S.682) to a vote. In the year since the FCC took away the 2015 Open Internet Order, we have seen some very troubling and dangerous activities by big cable and telephone companies.
Read More Read MoreWe sent comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology about its request for information regarding artificial intelligence, standards, and NIST’s role in developing a national strategy for AI.
Read More Read MoreIn June 2019, CDT submitted comments on the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’s proposed rule on interoperability and patient access. The rules would require covered entities to provide access to patient records through an application program interface to third parties designated by the patient. While CDT applauds the goal of giving patients better access to and ability to port their health information, we are concerned about the lack of privacy protections covering this sensitive information once it leaves the hands of an entity covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule.
Read More Read MoreTechnological school safety initiatives being rolled out around the country have the potential to harm the students they are intended to protect. Our student privacy team developed this two-pager to lay out considerations to protect all students, as well as actions for education leaders and policymakers to take.
Read More Read MoreCDT’s Joseph Jerome testified before the New York Senate on privacy, explaining why privacy is important and the urgent need for laws that limit companies’ ability to use and abuse our data.
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