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.
CDT Europe’s Analysis of the EU Special Panel Report on Child Safety Online
CDT Europe’s analysis of the EU Special Panel Report on Child Safety Online, which looks into the key recommendations of the report, noting its strengths whilst underlining some blind spots that merit additional attention to ensure that subsequent policy developments strike a delicate, yet critical, balance between protecting children online and safeguarding fundamental rights.
CDT Europe’s Response to the Trusted Flaggers Guidelines Consultation
CDT Europe welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Trusted Flaggers Guidelines public consultation and to reiterate the value of an effectively functioning trusted flagger mechanism in advancing the DSA’s enforcement.
“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.
Response to the OHCHR’s Call for Inputs on Protection of Human Rights Defenders in the Digital Age
CDT and CDT Europe welcome the opportunity to provide input into OHCHR’s drafting process of the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights pursuant to HRC resolution 58/23 on “Human rights defenders and new and emerging technologies: protecting human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, in the digital age”.
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.
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’s Response to the Public Consultation for the Digital Fairness Act Impact Assessment
CDT Europe welcomed the opportunity to respond to the European Commission’s Public Consultation for the Digital Fairness Act Impact Assessment, aimed at gathering citizens’ and stakeholders’ views on potential improvements in EU consumer law to strengthen the protection of consumers in the digital environment.
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.
