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Founded in 2014, the Center on Privacy & Technology is a leader at the intersection of privacy, surveillance, and civil rights.
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Privacy Center jointly submitted report to the UN Human Rights Council
The Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law and seven other organizations jointly submitted a report to the UN Human Rights Council, “Entrenching Authoritarianism: Expanding the Terrorism Framework and the Infrastructure of Surveillance to Repress Expression and Stifle Dissent.” The report shows the surveillance system available to the Trump administration and its use to repress freedom of expression. Truthout covered the release in this piece, “Rights Groups Detail “Authoritarian” Reality of US Surveillance in Report to UN.”
Privacy Center Fritz Fellow presented at 2025 STS Hub “Diffracting the Critical”
Dr. Marianna Poyares was one of the panelists of the 2025 STS Hub, taking place at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin March 11 - 14. Her presentation "The border at the center: why a critical STS must grapple with border enforcement" argues that new technologies of border and immigration enforcement consist of some of the most extreme forms of surveillance and data extraction, disregarding individual and human rights protections, as they operate within the normative equivalent of a state of exception.
“Our remarks from a White House meeting on international human rights treaty compliance” blog
In 2023, dozens of organizations submitted reports to the Human Rights Committee documenting serious deficiencies in the U.S.’s compliance with the requirements of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. On behalf of the coalition’s working group on privacy, freedom of expression, assembly and association, Director of Research and Advocacy Stevie Glaberson spoke at a White House meeting to cover all of the concerns of all 25 working group members. You can read the full text of her remarks, prepared together with partners at The Center for Constitutional Rights, Asian Law Caucus, UC Irvine School of Law, and input from the full working group, at our blog.
Virtual Screening of Coded Bias
The Center hosted a virtual screening of the documentary Coded Bias, exploring how bias is encoded in automated systems, and the threat this poses to civil and human rights. The film also features Center senior associate Clare Garvie and founding director Alvaro Bedoya.
Coalition Comments to DHS & HHS on Unaccompanied Immigrant Children
The Center drafted, organized, and filed comments, signed by thirteen other organizations, regarding the administration's use of children's information to deport their relatives. The comments explain that deporting families using information collected to place unaccompanied children is not only inhumane, but also unlawful and poor policy.