This brief explores how existing laws map onto a financial sector increasingly adopting AI, explaining how these tech-agnostic laws continue to govern both financial institutions and the technology ...

Financial institutions are increasingly deploying advanced AI systems to improve service delivery to customers, supporting internal operations, and improving efficiency. These systems aim to support ...

CDT filed an amicus brief in New Jersey v. Bryant, calling on the New Jersey Supreme Court to rule a tower dump warrant as an unconstitutional general warrant. Tower dumps are a surveillance technique ...

CDT works on a wide range of issues where technology shapes our fundamental rights and freedoms.

Artificial intelligence (AI) use in schools has never been greater, placing school leaders in the position of determining whether and how to adopt AI. However, many school leaders lack clear guidance, ...

Against a backdrop of deadly summer heatwaves and large-scale wildfires throughout Europe, the European Union is moving ahead with plans to fund and build major data centres to power AI. As these ...

In June 2027, the EU Directive on Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (hereinafter, VAW Directive) will enter into force, ensuring minimum criminalisation standards are applied to four ...

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) submitted comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on its Guidance and Templates for Public-Facing AI Documentation: An AI ...

Open-weight AI models – which the public can download and adapt freely – are rapidly closing the gap with proprietary systems like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. They offer real benefits: lower cost, ...

Imagine a customer walking into a bookstore. She loves mysteries and just finished a great book. She wants something along the same lines but she doesn’t know what, so she asks the bookseller. The ...