CDT Is Joined on Anti-Spyware Brief by Wide Range of Groups and Companies

In a friend-of-the-court brief filed today, CDT argues that anti-spyware vendors should be protected by the liability protections afforded other filtering companies under the Communications Decency Act. CDT was joined by a broad spectrum of Internet and technology industry groups, public interest organizations, civil liberties groups and individual companies that are all committed to the proposition that users should be empowered to control their own Internet experiences. The brief urges the court to protect anti-spyware vendors from liability in cases brought to intimidate anti-spyware vendors into ignoring spyware. May 05, 2008

Amicus Brief [PDF] May 05, 2008

CDT Press Release May 05, 2008

CDT's Schwartz Named to Government Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board

The Center for Democracy & Technology is pleased to announce that Ari Schwartz, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed to the US Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. The Board advises the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget on information security and privacy issues pertaining to information systems in the Federal Government. The Board was created by the Computer Security Act of 1987, and its name was changed and mission reaffirmed by the E-Government Act of 2002. May 05, 2008

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