Digital Privacy Issues
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Groups Urge FTC To Issue Report And Recommendations That Will Protect Privacy
July 14, 2010
Chairman Jon Leibowitz
Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20580Dear Chairman Leibowitz:
We write to urge the Federal Trade Commission to build on its recent privacy roundtables to draft a comprehensive plan that both details the deficiencies in Americans’ privacy rights, and proposes comprehensive statutory and regulatory solutions to those problems.
Urge FTC to Develop Rules to Protect Consumer Privacy in the New Personal Data Marketplace
For Immediate Release Contact: Jeff Chester (202-494-7100) April 8, 2010 jeff@democraticmedia.org Real-time Targeting & Auctioning, Data Profiling, Optimization, And Economic Loss To Consumers & Privacy
Click on the link below for the pdf of this filing.
Letter to House Energy Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet Urging Enactment of Consumer Privacy Guarantees
September 1, 2009
The Honorable Rick Boucher
U.S. House of Representatives
Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet
2187 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515The Honorable Cliff Stearns
U.S. House of Representatives
Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet
2370 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515Dear Chairman Boucher and Ranking Member Stearns:
The following organizations offer this letter and the attached primer for your careful consideration. These documents were developed with the goal of recommending solutions for and informing your Committee of important gaps in consumer privacy protection. While the recommendations are not exhaustive, they do represent areas of consensus among leading organizations concerned with consumer privacy.
Consumer And Privacy Groups Urge Congress to Enact Consumer Privacy Guarantees
For Immediate Release: September 1, 2009
Center for Digital Democracy Consumer Federation of America Consumers Union Consumer Watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation Privacy Lives Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Privacy Times U.S. Public Interest Research Group The World Privacy Forum
Contact: Jeff Chester, 202-494-7100; John M. Simpson, 310-392-0522, ext 317, Cell: 310-292-1902; Amina Fazlullah, 202-546-9707, Cell: 650-814-8003 and Susan Grant, 202-387-6121, ext. 119
WASHINGTON -- A coalition of ten consumer and privacy advocacy organizations today called on Congress to enact legislation to protect consumer privacy in response to threats from the growing practices of online behavioral tracking and targeting.
Hijacking the Internet: How Big Cable and Phone Companies' Plans for Broadband Threaten Democracy
The nation's largest telephone and cable companies have a vision for the Internet's future. Verizon, AT&T (formerly SBC), Comcast, and Bell South want to create a privately run and branded "pay-as-you-go" Internet, making everything we do online a "billable," revenue-generating service. Our every cyberspace move will be tracked and stored so we can be better marketed to (a data collection system that might even rival the NSA's!). Those with the deepest pockets--think corporate special interest groups and major advertisers--will get preferred treatment.
Digital Marketing, Privacy & the Public Interest
Protecting Privacy, Promoting Consumer Rights and Ensuring Corporate Accountability
