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New Report Exposes Flaws in NTIA “Multistakeholder” Effort to Establish Privacy Safeguards: White House Must Act to Fulfill its Vision for a “Privacy Bill of Rights”/See cross-platform tracking/users as $ "whales"

By: Jeff Chester | Aug 29 2013

Washington, DC: A report released today by the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) criticizes the Obama Administration’s recent effort to establish new privacy safeguards for the Digital Era. The more than yearlong proceeding led by the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to further the Administration’s proposed “Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights” failed to ensure that the public can be protected from the array of sophisticated mobile “app” data-gathering practices.
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Hudson Kingston Joins CDD as Legal Director/Will Oversee COPPA and Teen Privacy and Digital Marketing Initiatives

By: Jeff Chester | Aug 13 2013

Center for Digital Democracy Adds Legal Director Focusing on Youth Privacy and Digital Marketing Issues

CDD Begins Industry Review to ensure new COPPA Rules are Enforced

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U.S./EU Trade Deal Should Keep Privacy and E-Commerce Off-the-Table Until Public Learns about impact of NSA Data Gathering and Role of Online Companies

By: Jeff Chester | Jul 10 2013

The United State Trade Representative (USTR) holds hearings today for stakeholders to address issues related to the EU/US negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

CDD has been invited to testify. Here's a summary:
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Protecting Children's Online Privacy: A Parent's Guide to the new stronger kids privacy rules for digital media(COPPA)

By: Jeff Chester | Jun 26 2013

The new FTC rules designed to better protect children's privacy kick-in on July 1, 2013. CDD and colleagues led a four-year campaign to help create these safeguards. The new rules better protect kids from stealth online tracking, the collection of their geo-location information by apps and mobile devices, data gathered by social media, etc. Here's a guide for parents to help them understand how to make COPPA work for them.
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US Online Data Trade Groups spin digital fairy tale to USTR about US Consumer Privacy Prowess--CDD Says Privacy Out of Bounds in TTIP

By: Jeff Chester | May 29 2013

Today, the United States Trade Representatives convenes two days of hearings (see attached agenda) to help it formulate a negotiating policy for the forthcoming EU/U.S. trade pact--known as the Transatalantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). CDD is one of the consumer groups that has been asked to brief its Policy Staff Committee.
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Targeting the Digital Latino: FTC Needs to Address how Digital Marketers are Tracking Hispanic Consumers, inc. Youth

By: Jeff Chester | May 28 2013

Hispanics embrace of digital technologies, such as mobile phones, and their growing economic clout is attracting intense interest from marketers. This report highlights some of the recent recent research and activities aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market.

We will be updating this report, including adding links which provide more information on the marketplace (and which raise privacy and consumer protection issues).
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EU Report on Alcohol Marketing to Youth Examines Facebook and other Digital Media

By: Jeff Chester | May 3 2013

This EU-commissioned report--"Assessment of Young people's exposure to alcohol marketing in audiovisual and online media" analyzes the role of Facebook and other social media. It was written by Rand Europe (and CDD is cited, among many others).
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Reject Digital Ad Lobby Delay Tactics on Kids Privacy (COPPA), Leading Groups Urge FTC

By: Jeff Chester | Apr 23 2013

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Law Gives The U.S. Government Carte Blanche to Access Private Data Stored in the "Cloud" or Elsewhere (ACLU/Friends of Privacy USA)

By: Jeff Chester | Apr 10 2013

Second in a series from leading U.S. privacy and consumer NGOs on the failure of U.S. law and regulation to protect privacy.
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US NGOs Send EU Policymakers Background on Failure of U.S. to Protect Privacy

By: Jeff Chester | Apr 10 2013

A series of the failure of U.S. privacy policies to protect consumers. The first paper was written by CDD on the failure of self-regulation. The second was written by the ACLU and Friends of Privacy, USA.
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New Report Exposes Flaws in NTIA “Multistakeholder” Effort to Establish Privacy Safeguards: White House Must Act to Fulfill its Vision for a “Privacy Bill of Rights”/See cross-platform tracking/users as $ "whales"

Hudson Kingston Joins CDD as Legal Director/Will Oversee COPPA and Teen Privacy and Digital Marketing Initiatives

U.S./EU Trade Deal Should Keep Privacy and E-Commerce Off-the-Table Until Public Learns about impact of NSA Data Gathering and Role of Online Companies

Protecting Children's Online Privacy: A Parent's Guide to the new stronger kids privacy rules for digital media(COPPA)

US Online Data Trade Groups spin digital fairy tale to USTR about US Consumer Privacy Prowess--CDD Says Privacy Out of Bounds in TTIP

Targeting the Digital Latino: FTC Needs to Address how Digital Marketers are Tracking Hispanic Consumers, inc. Youth

EU Report on Alcohol Marketing to Youth Examines Facebook and other Digital Media

Reject Digital Ad Lobby Delay Tactics on Kids Privacy (COPPA), Leading Groups Urge FTC

Law Gives The U.S. Government Carte Blanche to Access Private Data Stored in the "Cloud" or Elsewhere (ACLU/Friends of Privacy USA)

US NGOs Send EU Policymakers Background on Failure of U.S. to Protect Privacy

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