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  • FTC Fails to Protect Privacy in Facebook decision

    By: Jeff Chester | Jul 24 2019

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    Instead of serious structural and behavioral change, 3-2 deal is a huge giveaway. By dismissing all other claims, Simons' FTC does disservice to public

    Statement of Jeff Chester, executive director, Center for Digital Democracy--CDD helped bring the 2009 FTC complaint that is the subject of today's decision on the Consent Order

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  • FTC must impose maximum fine and ensure Google’s YouTube business practices obey children’s privacy law, say groups

    Jun 25 2019

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    Google’s unprecedented violation requires an unprecedented FTC response and a 20-year consent decree to ensure Alphabet Inc. acts responsibly when it comes to serving children and parents; Google executives should also be held accountable.

    June 25, 2019

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  • Advocates Demand FTC Investigation of Echo Dot Kids Edition, Amazon violates COPPA in many ways, including keeping data that parents believe they deleted

    May 9 2019

    Contact:

    Josh Golin, CCFC: josh@commercialfreechildhood.org; (617) 896-9369

    Jeff Chester, CDD: jeff@democraticmedia.org; (202) 494-7100

    Advocates Demand FTC Investigation of Echo Dot Kids Edition

    Amazon violates COPPA in many ways,

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  • Press Briefing: Senators, Coalition Call for Sweeping National Digital Privacy Legislation

    Feb 28 2019

    Sub-title

    Experts to Demand Federal Action to Combat Growing Digital Consumer and Civil Rights Threats

    For Immediate Release:
    Feb. 26, 2019

    Contact:
    Mike Stankiewicz, mstankiewicz@citizen.org, (202) 588-7779

    Jeff Chester jeff@democraticmedia.org (202) 494-7100

    MEDIA ADVISORY
     

    Press Briefing: Senators, Coalition Call for Sweeping National Digital Privacy Legislation

    Experts to Demand Federal Action to Combat Growing Digital Consumer and Civil Rights Threats

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  • Groups Call for New Privacy Agency to Replace FTC - Ensure Role for States' Protections

    Jan 18 2019

    Curbing Companies’ Bad Behavior Will Require Stronger Data Privacy Laws and a New Federal Data Privacy Agency

    Federal Privacy Laws Are Antiquated and Need Updating; New Data Privacy Legislation Must Include Civil Rights Protections and Enhanced Punishments for Violations

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  • Google Play Store Apps for Kids Threatens Privacy and Poses Other Harms - Groups call for FTC Action to Protect Children and Families

    Dec 19 2018

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    Contact:

    David Monahan, CCFC (david@commercialfreechildhood.org; 617-896-9397)

    Jeff Chester, CDD (jeff@democraticmedia.org; 202-494-7100)

    Apps which Google rates as safe for kids violate their privacy and expose them to other harms

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  • 34 Civil Rights, Consumer, and Privacy Organizations Unite to Release Principles for Privacy Legislation

    Nov 13 2018

    34 Civil Rights, Consumer, and Privacy Organizations Unite to Release Principles for Privacy Legislation

    Contact: Katharina Kopp (kkopp@democraticmedia.org); 202-836 4621

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  • Advocates ask FTC to investigate apps which manipulate kids

    Oct 30 2018

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    Popular games for kids 5 and under lure them to watch ads and make in-app purchases

    A coalition of 22 consumer and public health advocacy groups called on the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) to investigate the preschool app market. The advocates’ letter urges the FTC to hold app makers accountable for unfair and deceptive practices, including falsely marketing apps that require in-app purchases as “free” and manipulating children to watch ads and make purchases.

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  • COPPA--Protecting Children’s Privacy Online for 20 Years

    Oct 4 2018

    Media Advisory – Save the Date


    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    October 3, 2018


    Contact: Jeff Chester
    jeff@democraticmedia.org


    COPPA--Protecting Children’s Privacy Online for 20 Years
    Sen. Ed Markey, Advocates and Experts Celebrate COPPA as they focus on
    future challenges posed by the digital marketplace
    October 17th, Capitol Hill, Open to Public

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  • Advocates Call on Senate to Invite Consumer Privacy Experts to Testify

    Oct 1 2018

    October 1, 2018

    Chairman John Thune

    Ranking Member Bill Nelson

    Senate Commerce Committee

    Washington, DC

    Dear Chairman Thune and Ranking Member Nelson,

    We appreciate your interest in consumer privacy and the hearing you convened recently to explore this topic.

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  • Child Advocacy and Consumer Groups Tell FCC to Keep Key TV Safeguards for Children

    Sep 25 2018

    September 25, 2018                                                                                                            Contact: Jeff Chester-202-494-7100

                                                                                                                                                David Monahan 617-896-9397

    For Immediate Release

    Child Advocacy and Consumer Groups Tell FCC to Keep Key TV Safeguards for Children

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  • CDD Releases E-Guide to Help Protect Voters From Online Manipulation and False News

    Sep 12 2018

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    CDD Releases E-Guide to Help Protect Voters From Online Manipulation and False News
     
    Washington, D.C.: September 12, 2018
     
    To help fight online political misinformation and false news, which has  already resurfaced in the 2018 midterm elections,  CDD has produced a short e-guide to help voters understand how online media platforms can be hijacked to fan political polarization and social conflict.
     

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  • Public Citizen and Center for Digital Democracy Release Sign-on Letter Urging Companies to Adopt Europe’s New Data Protection Rules

    By: Katharina Kopp | May 24 2018

    U.S. companies should adopt the same data protection rules that are poised to go into effect in the European Union on May 25, Public Citizen, the Center for Digital Democracy and Privacy International said today.

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  • Consumer groups in the U.S. and EU urge Facebook to adopt the General Data Protection Regulation as a global baseline standard

    By: Katharina Kopp | Apr 9 2018

    In an open letter to Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckkerberg, members of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue urge the company "to confirm your company’s commitment to global compliance with the GDPR".

    Authors

    Katharina Kopp
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  • Advocates Say Google’s YouTube Violates Federal Children’s Privacy Law

    By: Jeff Chester | Apr 9 2018

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    Consumer, privacy and children’s groups file complaint urging FTC to stop most popular kids’ online video service from gathering children’s data

    WASHINGTON, DC—April 9, 2018—Today, a coalition of leading U.S. child advocacy, consumer, and privacy groups represented by the Institute for Public Representation filed a complaint(link is external) urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate and sanction Google for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in operating YouTube. Google claims that YouTube is only for users 13 and up, despite being the most popular online platform for children, used by 80% of American children ages 6 to 12. 

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  • CDD, EPIC, Coalition of Consumer Groups Urge FTC to Investigate Facebook

    By: Katharina Kopp | Mar 21 2018

    In a statement issued today, CDD, EPIC and a coalition of consumer groups have called on the Federal Trade Commission to determine whether Facebook violated a 2011 Consent Order when it facilitated the transfer of personal data of 50 million Facebook users to the data mining firm Cambridge Analytica.

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  • Statement of Jeff Chester on plans by FCC to review 3-hour Children’s Educational TV Programming Rule

    By: Jeff Chester | Feb 13 2018

    Broadcasters want to kill one of their only few public interest obligations:  to air at least 3 hours of educational children’s programming a week.  The FCC is engaged in another outrageous form of digital highway robbery—to steal from kids in order to allow TV giants to make even more profits from shows filled with commercials.   Broadcasters now earn billions of dollars from their free public license to transit television—including getting access to invaluable cable TV channels.  They are supposed to serve as  a “Trustee” of the airwaves—not video programming bandits.
    Authors

    Jeff Chester
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  • Death of Net Neutrality Will Spur Greater Loss of Digital Privacy, Further Content Consolidation & Control

    By: Jeff Chester | Dec 15 2017

    Sub-title

    Statement of Jeff Chester, CDD

    Authors

    Jeff Chester
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  • Facebook Messenger Kids App Statement

    By: Jeff Chester | Dec 4 2017

    Statement of Kathryn C Montgomery, Ph.D.
    Professor, School of Communication, American University
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  • Federal Election Commission (FEC) Must Hold Hearings on Role of Digital Media in Political Campaigns

    By: Katharina Kopp | Nov 9 2017

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    The Center for Digital Democracy calls on the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to hold hearings examining the role that the Internet and related digital data applications now play in federal political campaigns. The public needs a better understanding of how contemporary digital practices in the “Big Data” era affect our electoral system. CDD also urges the FEC to begin a rulemaking to revise its regulations concerning disclaimers so the public has appropriate access to information regarding the operations of online ads and related content.  

    Authors

    Katharina Kopp
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