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.
EU AI Act Brief – Pt. 5, General-Purpose AI Models
CDT Europe has been publishing a series of blog posts and briefing papers on the EU AI Act and what it means for human rights. Here is the fifth post of the series where we examine General Purpose AI models (GPAI) and how they are regulated under the AI Act and additional processes and documents.
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.
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.
Tech Talks on Fair and Accountable AI: Data, Agents, and Regulation
Questions of equity, accountability, and data use are taking center stage now that AI reshapes everything from public services to private industry. This episode kicks off our mini transnational series, bringing together CDT Europe’s Laura Lazaro Cabrera and CDT US’s Miranda Bogen for an in-depth conversation on how AI governance is evolving on both sides of the Atlantic.
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.
CDT Europe’s Statement on the Digital Omnibus Package
On 19 November, the European Commission published the Digital Omnibus Package; a twinset of proposals suggesting amendments to crucial laws underpinning the EU digital rulebook, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act).
CDT Europe Responds to the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus Consultation
CDT Europe was glad to contribute to the European Commission’s consultation on the Digital Omnibus package, which aims to simplify the EU’s digital rulebook. In our submission, we urged caution against proposals that could weaken the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), a cornerstone of Europe’s human rights–based approach to AI governance.
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.
