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.
The norms of conversational advertising are being written right now by companies. Policy should be written alongside them, and it should start with recognizing that surreptitious manipulation at scale built on intimate information is itself a privacy harm, and a privacy law can, in part, solve some of those issue
Talking Tech with Roy Austin & Alex Givens on The Future of AI Governance
In this episode of CDT’s Tech Talks, Roy L. Austin, Jr., inaugural director of Howard University School of Law’s AI Initiative, joins Alexandra Givens, President and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, to discuss the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of AI.
CDT-led Coalition Calls for Transparency for White House AI Framework
CDT and Americans for Responsible Innovation led a broad, bipartisan coalition of over two dozen civil society groups in calling on the White House to release its Framework for review of frontier AI models.
The shortest month of the year was a busy one for Europe’s policymakers, with several European Parliament groupings showing their cards in relation to the AI Act omnibus and overall position regarding deepfakes.
A Long Road Ahead: Effective Remedies for Artificial Intelligence Harms in the European Union
CDT Europe’s new report delves into the AI Act’s offering for victims of AI harms, and finds that the law on its own cannot guarantee access to effective remedies.
Joint Open Letter on Rejecting the Proposal to Undermine Transparency in the AI Act
CDT Europe, together with 60 organisations, signed an open letter by Access Now and European Digital Rights (EDRi), addressed to the EU institutions, urging them to reject the deletion of the AI Act’s Article 49(2) transparency safeguard for high-risk AI systems as proposed in the recent AI Omnibus.
Welcome back to the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe’s Tech Policy Brief! This edition covers the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe and gives CDT’s perspective on the impact to digital rights.
Tech Talks on Protecting Minors Online: A Transatlantic View on Platform Safety
On this episode of the Tech Talks podcast, CDT Europe’s David Klotsonis and CDT US’ Aliya Bhatia sat down for a transatlantic conversation on one of the most pressing digital policy challenges today: protecting minors online.
Holding the Line: Preserving the Core Features of the EU’s GDPR
On European Data Protection Day, we urge decision makers to reflect on the implications of the Digital Omnibus proposal and to strive to protect the high standards of data protection that the GDPR has long guaranteed.
The start of 2026 is marked by mounting pressure points in EU AI policy: new rules on labelling AI-generated content, a deepening debate over sexual deepfakes, and sustained resistance to the Commission’s Omnibus Tech proposal. This month, we track where legal gaps are emerging and where rights protections are being defended.
Building an Harmonised Legal Framework to Address Tech-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence
CDT Europe is launching a series of papers on tech-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV), starting from this analysis of the legislative framework governing the issue.
Welcome back to the Centre for Democracy & Technology Europe’s Tech Policy Brief! This edition covers the most pressing technology and internet policy issues under debate in Europe and gives CDT’s perspective on the impact to digital rights.
CDT Europe’s Analysis of the Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal
Following our initial reaction after the Digital Omnibus simplification package was announced on 19 November, CDT Europe has undertaken further analysis of both proposals and how they relate to artificial intelligence.
Gender-Based Violence on Pornographic Platforms: A Gendered Reading of DSA Risk Assessments Reports
CDT Europe's new brief examines how gender-based violence (GBV) risks are mitigated on major pornographic platforms. We analyse how XVideos, Pornhub (Aylo), and Stripchat evaluate GBV risks in their first Digital Services Act (DSA) Risk Assessment Reports.
From Export Control to Unknown Exports: How the EU’s Dual-Use Regime Falls Short on Tackling Spyware
CDT Europe’s first research report examines how the Dual Use regulation which oversees export controls is enforced in practice across four EU Member States, and whether the legislation addresses ongoing human rights concerns in relations to the export of spyware technologies.
