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“The CDT wrote to the Commerce Committee, arguing in its August 2026 letter to Cruz that privacy-focused legislation ‘would help to address some of the root causes animating the concerns for kids' safety online.’"

“EFF and CDT have opposed [KOSA] from the opposite direction, arguing that a duty of care is vague enough to drive platforms toward aggressive age verification and content filtering rather than toward genuine privacy-by-design reforms.”

“On top of that, audits should also examine incentive structures inside AI companies in addition to the technology itself, the [CDT]guidelines say.” Read the full guidelines:

“The guidelines from [CDT] warn that properly evaluating AI models requires a considerable range of skills, including experts in everything from privacy to mental health to cybersecurity to bias outputs and physical safety.”

CDT’s O’Shaughnessy: “It can make it harder for assessors to get the buy-in they need to make deeper changes in companies.”

“When an assessment is done simply to meet a legal requirement, organizations are more likely to do the minimum that they need to do in order to comply, [O’Shaughnessy] and his colleagues recently concluded in a set of AI evaluation guidelines for policymakers”

“But legal requirements raise their own problems, said Matt O’Shaughnessy, a former State Department and Congressional staffer now at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a digital rights advocacy group.”

Ruane: “We have to be integrating support for kids’ education throughout their life cycle. I don’t think bans necessarily accomplish that, so let’s think about it a little bit differently and in a more supportive way that guides them along the process.”

CDT’s Kate Ruane in EdWeek: “How do we actually teach kids how to become experts while using this technology and become experts in the technology itself, as they age?”

“Harper, from CDT, said there also could be a privacy risk for voters who might not know how an AI agent on the line with them is capturing or repurposing their data.”

“Under the waiver request before the FCC, some state & fed laws protecting against deception & voter intimidation would continue to prohibit certain misleading election-related messages. But granting it could weaken a major deterrent for bad actors, said [CDT’s] Tim Harper.”

Our comments urge NIST to strengthen the framework’s focus on discovery-oriented evaluation, real-world contexts, multilingual and multicultural uses, public participation and emerging systems like agentic AI. Read the full comments:

CDT joined a coalition led by the National Fair Housing Alliance to comment on NIST’s TEVV-Athlon Framework for Evaluating AI Systems, which offers guidance for testing, evaluating, verifying and validating AI systems.

CBP conducted nearly 20,000 searches of electronic devices between April and June 2026, nearly double the number from early 2023. Jake explains why smartphones, which can contain the intimate details of our lives, require stronger privacy protections at the border.

A recent Second Circuit ruling allows warrantless searches of travelers’ electronic devices at the border. In a new piece for Tech Policy Press, CDT’s Jake Laperruque examines what the ruling means for digital privacy.