On April 10, CDT’s annual dinner, Tech Prom, will feature the President of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Alberto Ibargüen. Under his leadership, the Knight Foundation seeks to foster informed and engaged communities, and is taking a leading role supporting research and convenings that address the rapidly evolving information landscape, citizen trust, and the impact of these issues on our democracy.
Read MoreCDT is releasing an issue brief that offers recommendations and best practices for the education sector in retaining data that can serve students and deleting information that is no longer needed. The report explains that data deletion is not a simple task, and that it requires an analysis of policy, legal, and technical requirements.
Read MoreThe Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Hately v. Watts that opening an email message does not strip the message of privacy protections imposed by Congress in the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. “This is an important victory for privacy. A contrary ruling would have meant that spam emails nobody opens are better protected from government access than sensitive, personal messages you open and save,” said Greg Nojeim, Director of the CDT Freedom, Security and Technology Project.
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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