Rentrée season is in full swing in Brussels, with the State of the Union address, significant developments in the Digital Omnibus process, and crucial implementation milestones under both the AI Act ...

A number of recent policy proposals seek to catalyze third-party assessment for AI systems, spanning assurance of ordinary deployments of simple AI systems in well-defined use cases to the testing of ...

When law enforcement seeks user data from a communication service provider such as Google or AT&T, it must apply for a court order or warrant under Electronic ...

Vulnerabilities in voting systems are real and worth fixing. At the same time, the manner in which they are used to fearmonger does not reflect the actual security of elections. Security researchers ...

CDT Europe is publishing a joint statement with civil society organisations and individual signatories calling on the EU institutions to regulate spyware technologies after the 2026 Citizen Lab ...

As you move through the world with a phone in your pocket, you likely leave a trail of digital breadcrumbs. If you have enabled location services for a wide range of common apps or services like ...

This is the third piece in CDT’s “AI In Policing” series, in which we explore how police use various AI technologies for surveillance and investigations, the risks posed, and how we should respond.

Authorship lead by CDT Non-Resident Fellow Thessalia Merivaki. One of the most reassuring takeaways from the 2024 election year, which was termed “the year of AI elections,” was the absence of ...

K–12 schools across the country have rapidly adopted artificial intelligence (AI) tools even amid growing recognition of the risks this technology poses to students. This transformation highlights the ...

This is the second piece in CDT’s “AI In Policing” series, in which we explore how police use various AI technologies for surveillance and investigations, the risks posed, and how we should respond.

While much attention has rightfully been paid to the defense- and surveillance-related impacts of the Pentagon’s dispute with Anthropic, the fallout from this battle also has significant impacts on ...

General-purpose AI models are increasingly adapted by downstream developers for specialized uses — from medical transcription to legal contract analysis. This raises critical governance questions ...