What you need to know

Against surveillance-based advertising

CDD joins an international coalition of more than 50 NGOs and scholars in a call for a surveillance-based advertising ban in its Digital Services Act and for the U.S. to enact a federal digital privacy and civil rights law

Coalition Tells Biden Administration: No Data Flows Deal Until Congress Enacts Privacy Laws

Advocates Ask FTC to Protect Youth From Manipulative “Dark Patterns” Online

FTC Must Address Drivers of Dark Patterns - CDD's Katharina Kopp Speaks At FTC Workshop

Contextual Advertising—Now Driven by AI and Machine Learning—Requires Regulatory Review for Privacy and Marketing Fairness

The Whole World will Still be Watching You: Google & Digital Marketing Industry “Death-of-the-Cookie” Privacy Initiatives Require Scrutiny from Public Policymakers

CDD Joins Scholars and NGOs Calling on UN to Strengthen its Framework to protect Children in today’s Digital Era

Google Fitbit Deal Requires Policymakers to Protect Public Health, Privacy, Competition, Consumer Protection, Say Groups Representing Consumers and Citizens From Around the World

YouTube’s New Global Fund for Children’s Content Should be Commercial-Free, Diverse, and Independent

CDD & CFCC Call on UN Human Rights Office to Propose Advertising and Data Safeguards for Youth in its Upcoming Report

Why Californians Should Vote No on Proposition 24

Why Californians Should Vote No on Proposition 24

Groups Oppose SAFE Data Act

Groups Tell FTC to Investigate Discriminatory Data Practices and Impact in any of the FTC's Industry Investigations

Advocates Call on TikTok Suitors to Clean Up Kids’ Privacy Practices

Groups had filed complaint at FTC documenting how TikTok flouts children’s privacy law, tracks millions of kids without parental consent.

USDA Online Buying Program for SNAP Participants Threatens Their Privacy and Can Exacerbate Racial and Health Inequities, Says New Report

Digital Rights, Civil Rights and Public Health Groups Call for Reforms from USDA, Amazon, Walmart, Safeway/Albertson’s and Other Grocery Retailers - Need for Safeguards Urgent During Covid-19 Crisis

Groups tell FTC Influencer Marketing must be Regulated

Supporting the Call for Racial Justice

Groups Say White House Must Show Efficacy, Protect Privacy, and Ensure Equity When Deploying Technology to Fight Virus

Fifteen leading consumer, privacy, civil and digital rights organizations called on the federal government to set guidelines to protect individuals’ privacy, ensure equity in the treatment of individuals and communities, and communicate clearly about public health objectives in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. There must be consensus among all relevant stakeholders on the most efficacious solution before relying on a technological fix to respond to the pandemic.

Joint civil society statement: States use of digital surveillance technologies to fight pandemic must respect human rights

Platforms, Privacy, Pandemic and Data Profiteering: The COVID-19 crisis further fuels unaccountable growth from the digital tech and media industries

Children’s privacy advocates call on FTC to require Google, Disney, AT&T and other leading companies to disclose how they gather and use data to target kids and families

Threats to young people from digital marketing and data collection are heightened by home schooling and increased video and mobile streaming in response to COVID-19

The Google Fitbit Deal: Hazardous to Competition, Privacy, and the Future of Our Health

Groups Praise Sen. Markey and Google for Ensuring Children on YouTube Receive Key Safeguards

Statements by CDD, CCFC, AAP, and IPR on comments filed in response to the Federal Trade Commission’s review of COPPA

Leading child advocacy, health, and privacy groups call on FTC to Investigate Children’s Digital Media Marketplace Before Proposing any Changes to Privacy Protections for Children

Threats to young people from digital marketing and data collection must be analyzed to ensure meaningful safeguards under the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

Why it’s Google that deserves the anger of YouTubers

Grading Digital Privacy Proposals in Congress

Which digital privacy proposals in Congress make the grade?

Take Action to Protect the Privacy of Children Now

Center for Digital Democracy and Eight Other Public Interest Groups Demand FTC Block Google’s Fitbit Acquisition

FTC complaints filed by Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Center for Digital Democracy lead to major changes for kids on YouTube

The FTC’s Google/YouTube decision on children's privacy & digital marketing brings new safeguards, opportunities—and questions

Key new COPPA related policies won as groups vow to hold Google, marketers, FTC accountable

Advocates Who Filed the Privacy Complaint Against Google/YouTube Laud Improvements, But Say FTC Settlement Falls Far Short

FTC Facebook decision must go beyond Cambridge Analytica--that's just was the tipping point

The FTC is an unindicted conspirator in any privacy case

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

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.

Complaints filed Against Google, Inc. YouTube and Google Play, for Violating Children’s Privacy and Engaging in Deceptive Marketing Practices

Digital Marketing Causes Far-Reaching Harms and Violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

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

Privacy Rights Are Civil Rights

Over 40 Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Consumer Groups Call on Congress to Address Data-Driven Discrimination

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