The pressure on schools to keep students safe, especially to protect them physically and support their mental health, has never been greater. The mental health crisis, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and concerns about the increasing number of school shooting … | Continue reading
An international coalition of 90+ civil society organizations joined today in an open letter to Apple, calling on the company to abandon its recently announced plans to build surveillance capabilities into iPhones, iPads and other Apple products. On August 5, 2021, Apple announc … | Continue reading
The United States v. Moore-Bush ruling is an important signal of what may be to come for digital privacy rights and provides a necessary limitation on warrantless government video surveillance. | Continue reading
Details about how tech companies handled the shooter's video and written manifesto, in combination with the public discourse on and reaction to the attacks, have made clear three fundamental facts about content moderation. | Continue reading
It’s time for Congress to pass legislation providing comprehensive privacy protections that can’t be signed away. CDT has put forth a legislative discussion draft that outlines reasonable limits and defines individual rights. | Continue reading
Trust is a critical component to a thriving digital ecosystem and virtual private networks, or VPNs, offer users a way to disguise and protect their internet traffic. However, providers of commercial VPN services must still foster trust that they adequately obscure their users' d … | Continue reading
CDT has been working with a number of VPNs to promote better practices. Below is a list of questions that a number of VPN services have answered, and we are publishing unedited, in regards to their corporate accountability and business models, privacy practices, and security prot … | Continue reading