Center for Democracy & Technology
To Reduce Disability Bias in Technology, Start With Disability Data
When people with disabilities interact with technologies, there is a risk that they will face discriminatory impacts in several important and high-stakes contexts. Disability rights and disability justice activists have a long history of fighting against discrimination that impacts disabled people.
Groups Urge FCC to Provide Consumers with Easy-to-Understand Privacy Labels
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) in calling for the Federal Communications Commission to provide broadband consumers with easy-to-understand, accessible notices of broadband providers’ data practices.
Coalition Letter On Privacy and Free Expression Threats in Kids Online Safety Act (Center for Democracy & Technology)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/28/2022 - 12:11CDT Welcomes Eric Null as Director of Privacy & Data Project (Center for Democracy & Technology)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 01/27/2022 - 11:03Online and Observed: Student Privacy Implications of School-Issued Devices and Student Activity Monitoring Software (Center for Democracy & Technology)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 10/11/2021 - 16:10Suit Challenges President’s Executive Order Targeting First Amendment Protected Speech
The Center for Democracy & Technology filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s “Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship,” signed May 28, 2020. The suit argues that the Executive Order violates the First Amendment by curtailing and chilling the constitutionally protected speech of online platforms and individuals.
FCC's Net Neutrality Proceeding Too Narrow, Vague to Address Remand
In Mozilla v FCC, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reviewed the Federal Communications Commission’s 2018 “Restoring Internet Freedom” Order, in which it reclassified broadband internet access service (“BIAS”) as an “information service” and attempted to preempt state laws addressing net neutrality.
Coalition Letter to DHS Opposing Surveillance of Activists, Journalists, and Lawyers
We are a coalition of 103 civil liberties, civil rights, corporate responsibility, faith-based, human rights, immigrant rights, journalism, media, privacy, and government transparency organizations, legal service providers, and trade associations. We write to express our deep concern with reports of surveillance and targeting of activists, journalists, and lawyers by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).