written by Jeff Chester

Profits, Privacy and the Hollywood Strike

Addressing commercial surveillance in streaming video is key to any deal for workers and viewers says Jeff Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy.

Surveillance Marketing 2.0

FTC Should tell Microsoft that it’s “Game Over” with its plans to buy Activision Blizzard

FTC Should Examine Microsoft-Activision Deal, Consumer, Privacy, Labor, Repair Groups Say

CDD Tells FTC It's Time to Regulate Commercial Surveillance Marketing

US PIRG & CDD Urge CFPB to Protect Consumers/Small Businesses in the "wild west" of Online Payments & Digital Platforms

We Can’t Let the Surveillance Ad Industry Create the new Rules for Privacy

The Big Data Merger Gold Rush to Control Your “Identity” Information

Will the DoJ ensure that both competition and consumer protection in data markets are addressed?

Who is Really “Pushing” Your Online Shopping Cart as You Buy Groceries? It’s Big Data, Machine Learning and Lots of Cash from Advertisers

The FTC and States Should Investigate “Grocery Tech”

Surveillance Marketing Industry Claims Future of an “Open Internet” Requires Massive Data Gathering

New ways to take advantage of your “identity” raise privacy, consumer-protection and competition issues