Eric Null

2 months ago | cdt.org | Eric Null

Fighting for privacy rights has always been an uphill battle, perhaps now more than ever. Despite periodic moments of public outcry over abuses of state and corporate power enabled by egregious data practices (and decades of bipartisan lip service to the importance of “protecting privacy”), Congress has repeatedly failed to pass comprehensive privacy legislation.

Jun 27, 2024 | cdt.org | Eric Null

UPDATE 6/27/24, in response to the news that the markup was cancelled, Eric Null— Co-Director of CDT’s Privacy & Data Project — issued the following statement:“Today, the House Energy & Commerce Committee made the right call to cancel its markup of the updated American Privacy Rights Act, which lacked vital and necessary protections for civil rights and algorithmic transparency that were included in prior bill drafts and in the American Data Privacy and Protection Act from 2022.

Mar 5, 2024 | cdt.org | Eric Null

The EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council (TTC) has been working to identify areas of cross-governmental cooperation on digital identity technology, including a mapping exercise comparing some parts of existing regulation and standards. CDT welcomes cross-governmental transatlantic coordination of technology standards for digital identity.

Jun 16, 2023 | cdt.org | Eric Null |Jake Laperruque

Also contributed to by CDT Intern Sydney BrinkerIn the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and subsequent state laws that criminalize abortion, patients are at heightened risk that their health care providers will turn over sensitive reproductive health information to law enforcement for abortion-related investigations.