CDT’s Tech Talk is a podcast where we dish on tech and Internet policy, while also explaining what these policies mean to our daily lives. You can find Tech Talk on SoundCloud, iTunes, and Google Play, as well as Stitcher and TuneIn.
How informed are you about the news you’re reading online? Do you know if your news diet is balanced and filled with actual facts? For anyone who gets their news online, it’s clear that plenty of people do not have a nutritious news diet. Well, now there’s a tool to help!
The Newseum, Freedom Forum Institute and Our.News recently launched Newstrition, an interactive tool that makes it easy for the public to make informed decisions about what is real and what is “junk” news. In this episode, Lata Nott from the Freedom Forum Institute joins to talk about Newstrition.
After that, we welcome Teddy Hartman from the Howard County Public Schools. He shares a local perspective on how school districts can proactively address student privacy issues. Yes, you can have strong privacy practices and use new technology.
On September 15, 2026, the Center for Democracy & Technology and Electronic Frontier Foundation filed an amicus brief along with the Wikimedia Foundation in Meta Platforms v. Bonta, challenging California’s SB 976.
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.
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.
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.