CDT Comment Welcomes NIST Effort to Develop Zero Draft
Drawing on CDT’s previous comments on this NIST effort and our prior research on documentation, our submission welcomes NIST’s effort to develop the zero draft, which provides a much-needed step toward more standardized, high-quality guidance on how developers of AI system components should document key properties and potential sources of AI risk. This guidance will be a valuable resource for organizations to improve interoperability, build more performant AI products, and more effectively identify and mitigate AI risks.
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.
