Center For Digital Democracy

Maintaining and Promoting Data and Digital Consumer Protection Safeguards in...

December 18, 2013, 6:39 am

[Presentation given by Jeff Chester today at the request of the USTR at a meeting of stakeholders working on the US/EU trade agreement] read more

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Where is Pres. Obama "Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights" as part of NSA reform....

January 17, 2014, 11:29 am

While President Obama correctly connected the commercial and governmental collection of citizen information in his speech today, what was missing was any reference to consumer privacy protection. Yet...

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White House "Big Data" Review Must Address Commercial Surveillance,...

January 24, 2014, 6:27 am

John Podesta's post at the White House discusses the newly announced Big Data review they will tackle over the next 90 days. CDD and its NGO colleagues will work with John and his colleagues to ensure...

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CDD, allies, tell FTC it must do better job addressing mergers related to...

July 28, 2014, 9:22 am

Companies holding vast datasets of information on American and consumers, using techiques that have transformed the marketing industry, are being acquired by such giants as Google, Facebook, Acxiom and...

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Time Warner's 2014 SEC report illustrates COPPA's positive impact protecting...

July 30, 2014, 10:37 am

Time Warner (Cartoon Network) explains in its 2014 annual report for investors filed at the SEC: “The Company’s businesses are subject to existing laws and regulations governing data privacy, data...

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When will DoJ/FTC Put a Stop to Big Data Mergers? Deals keep coming, placing...

August 6, 2014, 7:41 am

We think both the DoJ and FTC are failing to seriously address the impact of growing consolidation in the digital data consumer targeting industry. The latest deal came yesterday, when Rocket Fuel...

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