Are you a recent law graduate interested in the First Amendment? Interested in working on issues where technology policy intersects with free speech, including generative AI, social media, trust & safety, and Section 230?
Come work with the FX team at CDT!
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We’re hiring — help us spread the word! @tnridout.bsky.social @mikefranz.bsky.social
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Transnational repression for the AI age: www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/c...
Exciting opening on my team for a summer student research assistant! Looking for a graduate student in a technical field or with a technical background to come work on a project looking at AI and the future of content markets.
Ending online anonymity would not be some magic cure to “fix” whatever problems plague the internet. But it would make a lot of people a lot less safe, and much less free to speak.
cats, too!
(jk, Search Party is a terrible service designed to create a dragnet surveillance apparatus. please stop!)
In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public.
“Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Now would be a good time to read my @motherjones.com story with @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social about Pam Bondi’s insane plan to get voter rolls from all 50 states & why it poses such a grave threat to the right to vote www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
At the #AIImpactSummit, we (@cdt.org) will be hosting two sessions on February 16th and 18th digging into a few of these questions and more under the frame of building multilingual AI tools and how to put language speakers and communities at the fore. Please join impact.indiaai.gov.in/agenda
Thread for folks following the upcoming AI summit, non-english language AI, and/or Indian tech sector + role of government:
"For the most part, a company wants your wallet, not your liberty. The same cannot be said of this administration." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
My colleagues and I published this explainer in December - it may answer some of your questions! cdt.org/insights/cdt...
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
We've started! Tune in on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/glO0_Sw...
“Political Influencers and Democracy in the Digital Age,” at the NYU Democracy Project electionlawblog.org?p=153990
Opinion: The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents.
That creates the potential for unprecedented privacy breaches that expose not only isolated data points, but the entire mosaic of people’s lives.
From @isabelalinzer.bsky.social @beccabranum.bsky.social @cdt.org — "Political Influencers and Democracy in the Digital Age"
Next up in our "100 ideas" series — New by @isabelalinzer.bsky.social @beccabranum.bsky.social @cdt.org — "Political Influencers and Democracy in the Digital Age"
Part of @nyulaw.bsky.social Democracy Project's "100 Ideas in 100 Days"
Read the full piece here: democracyproject.org/posts/politi...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
For anyone with questions about unmasking community watch groups or the claims that taking videos of ICE agents is the *real* threat to safety in US cities, @kateruane.bsky.social clears things up: www.techpolicy.press/americans-ha...
🚨 New report alert! 🚨
Our new study for the European Parliament on transnational repression in the EU is live!
Co-authored with @zecsaky.bsky.social, @emiledirks.bsky.social, and @alexdukalskis.bsky.social: a great team to work with.
So predictable, in fact, that we @cdt.org worked with our partners to publish an explainer in December about what's happening, the legal landscape, and the impacts (including disenfranchisement!) cdt.org/insights/cdt...
Come work at CDT!! We just posted two really awesome new jobs: Senior Policy Analyst/Counsel for Privacy & Data and Research Director cdt.org/careers/
I'm hiring a senior policy analyst/counsel for the privacy & data team at CDT!
"Inquire within"
On Jan. 7, the White House announced the United States’s departure from 66 multilateral organizations and treaties. @isabelalinzer.bsky.social and @aliyabhatia.bsky.social explore how the withdrawal will hamper the United States’s ability to advance human rights and civil liberties on and offline.
It's me, I'm Pam
While the piece focuses on tech, especially FOC and Venice Commission, the lessons apply more broadly. A world where the US prioritizes human rights and global governance is a better one, both at home and abroad. That's a terrible thing to lose sight of.
New from @aliyabhatia.bsky.social and me on how the US withdrawal from international organizations puts the globally connected, open internet at risk and threatens human rights worldwide: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
