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Canada has new bully-fighting hero. She’s a journalist who also happens to be a burlesque dancer, and when she was harassed online, she and her glitter army sprung into action to fight back against the anonymous troll. Jessica Davey-Quantick joined us to talk about her experience and why she felt it was so important to take action.
And if burlesque isn’t sexy enough for you, we also talk about data deletion. Ok, so maybe this sounds a bit boring, but CDT has a new paper out that makes the case for why companies need to rethink their data practices and why the time has come to delete some of that data. Brian brings in Joe Jerome – CDT’s Policy Counsel on the Privacy & Data team – to discuss “Should it stay or should it go? The legal, policy, and technical landscape around data deletion.”
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.