Projects

  • Crypto Policy Project

    Encryption helps human rights workers, activists, journalists, financial institutions, innovative businesses, and governments protect the confidentiality, integrity, and economic value of their activities.

  • Government Hacking

    Encryption helps human rights workers, activists, journalists, financial institutions, innovative businesses, and governments protect the confidentiality, integrity, and economic value of their activities.
  • Notice by Design

    The Notice by Design program applies human‐computer interaction research and experimentation to consumer problems such as online privacy. This widely-discussed research leverages legal expertise in privacy with post-graduate research in user interface design.

  • Open Courts

    Transparency has always been essential to the rule of law and the legitimacy of our court system. But government secrecy has grown dramatically over the last few decades, especially in the realm of electronic surveillance (often court-approved) by law enforcement.

  • Smart Cities

    "Smart Cities" is a euphemism for the creation of a digital infrastructure at all levels of government and in public spaces for the collection and processing of large amounts of data derived from sensors, cameras, interaction of people with their environment, and the creation of applications and

  • Warrant Workshop

    In 2019 CIS is hosting its first-ever Warrant Workshop, a judicial training program specially designed for magistrate judges confronting new surveillance technologies available to law enforcement.

  • World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap)

    The World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap) is an online resource informing the public about evolving Internet regulation affecting freedom of expression and user rights worldwide.