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.
Silenced by Design: Gendered Disinformation and its Threat to Democracy
Our latest paper on gendered disinformation and the EU’s response to this growing democratic challenge is part of our TFGBV series. It explores how existing legislation can be leveraged to tackle gendered disinformation, where the current framework falls short, and what policymakers should do next.
“A Union of Equality” – An Analysis of the European Commission’s New Strategies in the Digital Age
CDT Europe analysed the new EU Equality strategies for 2026 to 2030 in light of their objectives to address gender-based cyber-violence as well as online hatred against racial and ethnically minoritised persons and the LGBTIQ+ community.
Joint Policy Paper: Fighting against tech-facilitated gender-based violence faced by women in Europe’s public life
CDT Europe, as part of the Forum for Gender Equality in Europe (FORGE), contributed to the first policy paper of the coalition, setting out recommendations to complement and support the implementation of the EU Gender Equality Strategy 2026–2030, which identifies women’s participation in political life, economic decision-making, and public debate as essential for strengthening democratic legitimacy and inclusive governance in the European Union.
From Risk Mitigation to App Bans: Assessing EU Legislation’s Potential to Combat AI-generated Image Abuse
Following the Grok scandal in late December 2025, CDT Europe assessed the potential of key EU legislation (i.e., DSA and AI Act) in combating the proliferation of "nudifying" tools and AI-generated image abuse, which mostly targets women and minors.
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.
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.
CDT Europe Responds to the European Commission Public Consultation on the 2026-2030 Gender Equality Strategy
CDT Europe submitted feedback to the European Commission’s public consultation on the next Gender Equality Strategy (2026-2030), welcomed this opportunity to advocate for the promotion and protection of gender equality and human rights in European tech law and policy.
