CDT advocates for effective, rights-respecting approaches to children's online safety, providing technical support to policymakers and advancing best practices for trust and safety.
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The emergence of new technologies presents new opportunities and new threats for everyone — especially kids. CDT works to address evolving concerns while ensuring that solutions empower users and do not threaten privacy and free expression for everyone.
CDT’s work is premised on the idea that effective safety mechanisms can make the internet better for everyone, kids and adults alike. We focus on privacy, common sense best practices, and tools that can help ensure kids’ safety while respecting all our fundamental rights.
Op-Ed: France’s Constitutional Council Ruling Tests the Limits of Social Media Bans
Read our analysis the legal and policy significance of the Constitutional Council’s decision on ongoing social media age restriction and age assurance debates ahead of the most-anticipated EU-wide approach on child online safety due by December 2026.
Congress Should Protect Children Online Without Sacrificing Privacy and Free Expression
CDT is urging lawmakers to pursue protections that address the underlying incentives and data practices that place young people at risk—without imposing broad censorship mandates or forcing people to surrender their privacy to access online services.
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.
Senate AI and Kids Safety Package Won’t Justify Preempting State AI Laws
Congress should not stifle states' work in favor of incomplete and constitutionally problematic legislative packages that create a patchwork of protections at best and erode our privacy and free expression rights at worst.
