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Sharing Student Data Across Public Sectors: Importance of Community Engagement

It is critical that agencies participating in data sharing initiatives take steps to ensure the benefits are available to all & no groups of students experience disproportionate harm. This paper presents guidance on how practitioners can conduct effective community engagement around the sharing of student data between K-12 edu. agencies & adjacent public sectors.

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Cover for CDT's report, entitled "Sharing Student Data Across Public Sectors: Importance of Community Engagement to Support Responsible and Equitable Use." Report title & CDT logo in black and light blue text on a white background. Graphic depicts a diverse set of agency practitioners and community members (in purple, green, and yellow) standing around a table, discussing together the implications of different student data proposals.
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Victory! Belgium Scraps Proposed Law to Backdoor End-to-End Encryption
CDT submitted comments to the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection in regards to tech platforms' payment data practices. White document on a dark grey background.

CDT’s Comments to the CFPB on Tech Platforms’ Payment Data Practices
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Happy Holidays from CDT! Your Support Makes Our Work Possible
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Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Creates New Pathways to Protect Student Privacy and Build Equitable Access to Technology
CDT submitted comments on the FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program. White document on a dark grey background.

CDT Urges FCC to Protect Student Privacy and Bolster Equitable Online Access in Establishing Affordable Connectivity Fund
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Berkeley Labor Center’s Worker Technology Rights Framework Provides Crucial Guideposts for Action
Caption: All four members of CDT’s Equity in Civic Tech team (from left to right: Hugh, Elizabeth, Hannah, Cody) met together for the first time in November 2021 for a team retreat.

Looking Forward to the New Year: Reflections from the Equity in Civic Technology Project
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Tech Talk: The Patriot Act Turns 20 — Talking Tech W/ Laura Murphy and Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold
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Protecting Disabled People’s Privacy is a Civil Rights Issue: Lydia X. Z. Brown’s Remarks Before the NTIA’s Listening Session on Civil Rights, Privacy, and Data
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European Parliament IMCO Committee Adopts DSA Report: Significant steps Forward, Leaps Still to Be Made
CDT report, entitled "Making Transparency Meaningful: A Framework for Policymakers." Large black text underlined with three wide gradients of soft purples, green / blues, and red – as if sunlight was reflecting through an open window.

Report – Making Transparency Meaningful: A Framework for Policymakers
A CDT and KAS report, entitled "A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States, Brazil, and France." Three human figures, all getting information in different ways while standing above a map from different countries. Blue / green, dark blue, white and black colors. A Jonathan Swift quote in a circle: "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." (Commonly misattributed to Mark Twain.)

A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States, Brazil, and France (CDT report published by KAS)