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Center for Democracy & Technology

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Center for Democracy & Technology

@CenDemTech

The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @CDTEU for our EU-based team.

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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
May 21, 2025
Follow us on other channels ⬇️ 🔵Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/cdt.org 🟣Mastodon: techpolicy.social/@CenDemTech 🫂LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/center… Looking for CDT Europe? Find their channels here: ⚫️X: @cdteu 🔵Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/cdteu.… 🟣Mastodon: eupolicy.social/@cdteurope
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
May 24, 2023
"The @FBI used a controversial foreign #surveillance authority in 2020 to investigate whether protesters involved in the Black Lives Matter movement had ties to terrorists, according to two reports declassified [last week]."
FBI misused surveillance authorities to investigate Black Lives Matter protesters
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Jun 2, 2020
🚨 BREAKING: Today, we've taken a critical & necessary stand for the First Amendment. @CenDemTech filed a lawsuit against @POTUS' “Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship,” which violates 1A by chilling constitutionally protected speech of online platforms & individuals.
Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Oct 26, 2020
📺 We're seeing a lot of #misinformation & #disinformation this election cycle – here's how you can spot it and fight it. @CenDemTech works every day to build trust in election systems & security. #DisruptDisinfo Get more info at: cdt.org/collections/el…
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Mar 16, 2023
CDT's @JakeLaperruque recently authored two briefs on #surveillance reform, 1) debunking myths & fixing FISA Section 702's backdoor search loophole; & 2) properly narrowing FISA S702 targeting. * Backdoor search: cdt.org/insights/cdt-i… ** Targeting: cdt.org/insights/cdt-i…
CDT Issue Brief: Debunking Myths & Fixing FISA Section 702 Backdoor Search Loophole
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Jun 16, 2023
“The new items the @FBI touted at the hearing are wholly inadequate, and out of touch with how serious these abuses are,” said @JakeLaperruque [of] the @CenDemTech, a group that is calling for FISA reforms." #FixFISA
Congress and intelligence officials spar over surveillance reforms
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Oct 23, 2023
📢 BREAKING: Today, @CenDemTech is launching a new AI Governance Lab – an initiative to advance robust solutions that address the risks and harms of #ArtificialIntelligence systems – helmed by leading responsible #AI experts @mbogen and @KevinBankston: cdt.org/cdt-ai-governa…
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Jun 12, 2023
Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary (@JudiciaryDems) is holding a hearing around FISA Section 702 & related #surveillance authorities – in advance, @CenDemTech and 20+ other orgs joined in a letter urging Congress not to reauthorize w/o substantial reforms:
CDT & Rights Groups Urge Reform of Section 702 Ahead of Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Jul 11, 2023
.@mer__edith: "I think we need to be very clear that there’s no way to implement a safe backdoor. Artificial intelligence — whatever you have been led to believe by the marketing of these companies — is not in fact capable of magic."
Signal's Meredith Whittaker: Breaking encryption while preserving privacy is 'magical thinking'
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Feb 9, 2022
🚨 Today, @CenDemTech is leading 60+ human rights, civil rights & open Internet orgs in calling on Congress to oppose the fatally-flawed #EARNITAct. It threatens #encryption & #freespeech while making it harder to protect children from online abuse.
CDT Leads Broad Human Rights Coalition Urging Senate to Drop EARN IT Act
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Jun 15, 2023
"In the shadow of years of inaction by Congress on comprehensive #privacy reform, a #surveillance state has been quietly growing in the legal system's cracks. Little deference is paid by prosecutors to the purpose or intent behind [limits on] domestic surveillance activities."
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Jun 14, 2023
.@JakeLaperruque: "...the [] items @FBI touted at the hearing felt like when McDonald's started advertising how its chicken nuggets were now all chicken meat – it's not a appetizing pitch & really just makes you ask 'wait, you weren't doing that before?'"
theregister.com
US senators, spies spar over Section 702 surveillance
'Appropriately pissed off' lawmakers won't renew without safeguards
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Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
Aug 3, 2022
📊🚨 New @CenDemTech research details the concerning impact of software that tracks students’ online activity. Findings show students are being targeted for disciplinary action, law enforcement contact & outing of gender identity or sexual orientation. 🧵 cdt.org/insights/repor…
Center for Democracy & Technology
@CenDemTech
May 8, 2023
.@CenDemTech's @ellanso digs into the STOP CSAM Act, outlining the ways the bill jeopardizes children + adults’ constitutional rights to privacy & #FreeSpeech & risks overwhelming law enforcement w/ bogus reports transmitted by risk-averse tech companies.
The STOP CSAM Act Threatens Free Expression and Privacy Rights of Children and Adults
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