Federal Policy
CDD and U.S. PIRG Call on CFPB & other Financial Regulators to Regulate the use of Social Media in Consumer Financial Services
Submitted by demedia on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 18:00CDD and U.S. PIRG Education Fund Call on CFPB & other Financial Regulators to Regulate the use of Social Media in Consumer Financial Services
Submitted by demedia on Tue, 03/26/2013 - 12:16CDD and U.S.
Leading Consumer, Privacy, Child Advocacy & Public Health Groups Call on FTC Chair to Appoint "Pro-Consumer" and "Independent of Industry" BCP Director
Submitted by demedia on Tue, 03/19/2013 - 12:16This letter was sent today to new FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez by three-dozen NGOs--including the national leaders in the consumer and privacy fields.
Datamining our "Likes" on Facebook reveals details about our personal lives--new research
Submitted by demedia on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 13:23Facebook and other online data collectors are able to continually gather and analyze the digital bits of behavior that make up our identities. A new study entitled "Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior," via Cambridge and Microsoft Research researchers illustrate the social surveillance infrastructure Facebook and so many others have unleashed. No one would willingly permit the FBI
Statement on appointment of Edith Ramirez as Chair of the FTC
Submitted by demedia on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 13:57Statement on Appointment of Edith Ramirez at Chair of the FTC by Jeff Chester, CDD
CDD tells FCC to protect privacy and ensure consumer protection in the the Mobile Marketing/Geo-Location Targeting Era
Submitted by demedia on Fri, 07/13/2012 - 20:40FTC Makes Advances Protecting the Privacy of Americans in Big Data Era, with Call for Congress to Rein-in Data Brokers
Submitted by demedia on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 17:06FTC Makes Advances Protecting the Privacy of Americans in Big Data Era, with Call for Congress to Rein-in Data Brokers
But major concerns loom as report leaves consumers vulnerable to widespread data collection and tracking. Battles ahead as consumer group presses for action
Statement of Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center for Digital Democracy
Why Political Online Marketing for Elections & Campaigns Require Regulatory Safeguards
Submitted by demedia on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 13:23For the last several years, we have closely followed the growth of digital marketing used by campaigns and special interest groups. It was always evident to us that we would conduct our elections and shape political influence through digital marketing. But this new medium, able to capture our thoughts, interests and desires in an instant; which can follow and track us whereever we go and do online; that can sell the right to target us with an interactive ad to the highest bidder in milliseconds; and has gathered and analyzed data about our finances, health, kids, race/ethn
Dueling Do-Not-Tracks? Does the DAA/IAB Fear of Multi-stakeholder Process Doom Real Privacy Controls?
Submitted by demedia on Sun, 02/26/2012 - 15:43Is the development of a global, uniform, and powerful means of protecting some of a users information online about to be derailed? That's certainly a possibility, given this week's White House's endorsement of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) plan to implement its own form of do-not-track (DNT). The ultimate fate of the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) own work to create a "tracking-protection" standard--one that would likely be more effective--is in doubt. It's precisely because the DAA and i
