CNN reported that the White House is drafting an Executive Order that would give both the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission the power to judge what speech should and should not appear online. The Center for Democracy & Technology condemns this reported effort to vastly expand government regulation of speech online.
Read MoreToday, the Department of Justice announced its decision to let the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint go forward, despite concerns that the transaction would reduce competition in the wireless sector.
Read MoreIn a speech at Fordham University, Attorney General Barr launched another broadside at communications security by calling for compelled law enforcement access to the plain text of communications encrypted end-to-end. We issued the following statement.
Read MoreTech Crunch: Few issues divide the tech community quite like privacy. Much of Silicon Valley’s wealth has been built on data-driven advertising platforms, and yet, there remain constant concerns about the invasiveness of those platforms. Yet with global platform usage and service sales continuing to tick up, we asked a panel of eight privacy experts: “Has anything fundamentally changed around privacy in tech in 2019? What is the state of privacy and has the outlook changed?” CDT President & CEO Nuala O’Connor responds here.
Read MoreCDT President & CEO Nuala O’Connor sits down with CNBC to discuss the prospects of a federal data privacy law, the GDPR, Apple and consumer data, and more.
Read MoreCDT’s Greg Nojeim writes in Ars Technica: In the wake of news from Reuters that a federal court in California rejected Department of Justice demands that Facebook break, bypass, or remove the encryption in its Messenger app, it’s worth noting how little we still know about such an important dispute.
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