The Stanford Tech Impact and Policy Center will host the fifth annual Trust and Safety Research Conference on October 1-2, 2026 at Stanford University. The conference brings together trust and safety ...

Rentrée season is in full swing in Brussels, with the State of the Union address, significant developments in the Digital Omnibus process, and crucial implementation milestones under both the AI Act ...

The 2026 legislative session has shown a continued but shifted focus on the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI), with most bills — both introduced and passed — grappling with the rise and use ...

Next week, CDT — along with a broad cohort of tech and policy experts from civil society, the internet publishing world, search engine providers, AI labs, commercial data collectors, digital ...

Vulnerabilities in voting systems are real and worth fixing. At the same time, the manner in which they are used to fearmonger does not reflect the actual security of elections. Security researchers ...

As you move through the world with a phone in your pocket, you likely leave a trail of digital breadcrumbs. If you have enabled location services for a wide range of common apps or services like ...

This is the third piece in CDT’s “AI In Policing” series, in which we explore how police use various AI technologies for surveillance and investigations, the risks posed, and how we should respond.

This is the second piece in CDT’s “AI In Policing” series, in which we explore how police use various AI technologies for surveillance and investigations, the risks posed, and how we should respond.

While much attention has rightfully been paid to the defense- and surveillance-related impacts of the Pentagon’s dispute with Anthropic, the fallout from this battle also has significant impacts on ...

General-purpose AI models are increasingly adapted by downstream developers for specialized uses — from medical transcription to legal contract analysis. This raises critical governance questions ...

Limiting the collection, sharing, and consolidation of personal data that is held by government agencies has been a decades-long, bipartisan priority across the United States. 1 But these limits have ...

Hollywood is in the middle of a reckoning. From the Golden Globes to the Oscars, from strike lines to sound stages, one question is quietly — and sometimes loudly — reshaping the future of film: what ...