Data portability is hugely important, empowering individuals to access, transfer, and ultimately control their identity, media, and other forms of personal data. As a steward of considerable amounts of personal information, the federal government is well-positioned to explore how it can offer data portability mechanisms for citizens.
Section 230 of the Communications Act enables individual speakers to identify online services that will host their own First Amendment-protected speech. The Subcommittee’s invasive, burdensome inquiry into Backpage.com’s editorial practices creates an intense chilling effect, not only for Backpage but for any website operator seeking to define their own editorial viewpoint and moderation procedures for the third-party content that they host.
Read More Read MoreCDT joined in filing an intervention with the French High Court today, arguing that the CNIL’s order for Google to apply delisting of search results globally under the EU’s “Right to be Forgotten” is a dangerous move that imperils freedom of expression and access to information online.
Read More Read MoreCDT recognizes the tremendous societal benefits that may be derived from autonomous technologies, and we encourage NHTSA to further explore the privacy and cybersecurity impacts of AVs. Specifically, these comments focus on the Federal Automated Vehicles Policy’s Cross-Cutting Guidance with respect to: (1) data sharing; (2) privacy; (3) cybersecurity; and (4) consumer education and training.
Read More Read MoreCDT signed onto a coalition letter with open government, privacy, and civil liberties advocates urging President Obama to take swift action before he leaves office to bolster civil liberties protections, primarily through added government transparency. For instance, the letter calls for the Justice Department to summarize for the public key Office of Legal Counsel opinions dealing with national security and civil liberties, and to publicly release foreign intelligence court decisions and inspector general reports.
Read More Read MoreCDT signed onto a coalition letter with more than 20 civil liberties and privacy advocates, and companies, urging Congress to delay implementation of Rule 41. The coalition noted that “government hacking . . . can be much more privacy invasive than traditional searches” and suggested swift passage of Sen. Coons’s bill.
Read More Read MoreAt the Center for Democracy & Technology, we believe that there are core beliefs that unite every American. Our policy recommendations for the nation’s 45th president are moderate, pragmatic proposals aimed at charting a forward-looking course that protects our individual rights, keeps the country secure, and enables further innovation in our hyper-connected reality.
Read More Read MoreOn October 27, the FCC voted on rules to protect internet users’ privacy by requiring broadband providers to get consent before using and sharing customers’ data. The Commission also harmonized the rules for all telecommunications carriers, including telephone service providers. This cheat sheet is designed to give policy makers, members of media, and the public an overview and understanding of the important details in the rulemaking.
Read More Read MoreCDT has submitted additional comments on the the Copyright Office policy study focused on Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which prohibits the circumvention of technological protection measures (TPMs). CDT commented in the initial phase of this study, and these comments address the Office’s response to the proposals received to update the statute.
Read More Read MoreCDT provided input for the report that the Special Rapporteur on the protection and promotion of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, is preparing on the role of telecommunications and internet access providers in freedom of expression. We provided a CDT work product that pertained to three areas of inquiry of this study: (1) the examination of policies and practices that affect users’ access to…
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