Elizabeth Laird
Role at the time: Director, Equity in Civic Technology, Center for Democracy & Technology
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Elizabeth Laird, of the Center for Democracy & Technology, said she was hopeful that Microsoft's nationwide privacy standard takes some of the pressure off individual school districts to negotiate with large tech companies.
“What I’m hopeful about is that this takes some of the pressure off individual school districts to negotiate with large tech companies”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Microsoft commits to sweeping AI privacy rules for students nationwide
AP/ABC News report on Microsoft extending the AFT/UFT AI-privacy standard nationwide, with reactions from CDT, OpenAI, and Anthropic.
Why we used this label
Laird welcomes the standard as taking some of the pressure off individual districts to negotiate with large tech companies, a conditional endorsement of this specific mechanism rather than a full resolution of the broader pause debate.