• CDT welcomed a recent human rights impact assessment of Facebook’s plans to roll out end-to-end encryption for all of its messaging services. The authoritative assessment found that strong end-to-end encryption on social media platforms, used by billions of people around the world, enables human rights. In a blog post, we take a closer look at the assessment’s impact on encryption, metadata, children’s safety, and more.
  
• CDT joined an open letter, along with 30 civil society organizations from around the world, calling on social media platforms to take seven concrete steps to address structural inequalities in how they treat different countries, markets, and regions in their policies around responding to violent conflicts.
  
• CDT joined an amicus brief by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in NetChoice v. Paxton, a case challenging the Texas social media law HB 20. We argue that, by requiring covered platforms to not “censor a user” on the basis of the “viewpoint” the user expresses, the law violates platforms’ First Amendment-protected right to exercise editorial discretion by engaging in content moderation.
• The recently-enacted 21st Century Cures Act, which passed over the objections of disabled activists, requires personal care attendants to use an Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) system that records attendance, geographic location, and other invasive details about how they do their jobs. Increasingly, states are attempting to meet EVV requirements through apps or software programs to make it “easier” for disabled people and support workers, but these programs can be intrusive and cause new privacy violations. We called for states to act on their own to develop and implement clear regulations limiting the use of the most harmful types of EVV systems.
  

CDT "in Person"

• On April 28, join CDT’s Ridhi Shetty, Policy Analyst for the Privacy & Data team, at the ABA National Symposium on Technology in Labor and Employment Law for a discussion on advanced hiring technologies and their effect on the hiring experience and opportunities for people with disabilities. Panelists will discuss whether these technologies have a disparate impact on people with disabilities or can offer new opportunities for people with disabilities, and how companies can and should accommodate candidates with disabilities so that they can be properly evaluated during the hiring process.
  
• In early April, Mallory Knodel, CDT’s Chief Technology Officer, joined a panel co-hosted by the Stanford Internet Observatory, the Greater Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society, and CDT to discuss content moderation in an end-to-end encrypted world. 
  
• Have you listened to the latest episode of CDT’s podcast, Tech Talk? Join host Jamal Magby in a conversation about the importance of cybersecurity for K-12 schools with Doug Casey, Executive Director for the Connecticut Commission for Educational Technology, and Cody Venzke, Senior Counsel for CDT’s Equity in Civic Technology Project.
  

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