CDT Europe and Partners Call for Enforceable Safeguards on Commercial Spyware
CDT Europe, alongside 25+ other civil society organisations, has joined a call on governments and industry to build enforceable human rights and accountability safeguards into the forthcoming Pall Mall Industry Guidelines on Commercial Cyber Intrusion Capabilities (CCICs), a category that includes commercial spyware.
In this brief, CDT Europe delves into the disadvantages that a criminalisation approach may have when it comes to TFGBV and explore the opportunities non-criminal redress mechanisms offers for redress.
On September 15, 2026, the Center for Democracy & Technology and Electronic Frontier Foundation filed an amicus brief along with the Wikimedia Foundation in Meta Platforms v. Bonta, challenging California’s SB 976.
Coalition Urges Senate Not to Let Companies Waive Financial Regulations for AI
CDT joined AI Now Institute, American Civil Liberties Union, and several organizations dedicated to tech policy, consumer protection, and civil rights in a letter to Senate leadership and the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee opposing the “AI Innovation Labs” language in Sec. 10509 of the CLARITY Act.
