DIGITAL
HEALTH
CDD is working to ensure the digital health field is accountable; privacy is respected, and that safeguards are in place for online health marketing.
DIGITAL
CONSUMER
CDD closely tracks the Digital Marketing industry to make the public, the media, and policymakers aware of their activities, in order to protect your consumer rights and online privacy.
DIGITAL
CITIZEN
CDD advocates for fair, equitable and just media and public sphere. We need limits on the use of commercial consumer data by political campaigns for voter targeting and voter suppression.
DIGITAL
YOUTH
CDD protects the interests of young people, and is committed to ensuring children and teens are treated fairly in the commercial online marketplace.
The FTC’s Google/YouTube decision on children's privacy & digital marketing brings new safeguards, opportunities—and questions
I played a key role helping get the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) passed by Congress in 1998 (when I was executive director of the Center for Media Education).
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Advocates Who Filed the Privacy Complaint Against Google/YouTube Laud Improvements, But Say FTC Settlement Falls Far Short
Contact: Jeff Chester, CDD (jeff@democraticmedia.org; 202-494-7100) David Monahan, CCFC (david@commercialfreechildhood.org; 617-896-9397)
Read MoreCenter for Digital Democracy’s Principles for U.S. Privacy Legislation
The Center for Digital Democracy provides the following recommendations for comprehensive baseline Federal privacy legislation.
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FTC Fails to Protect Privacy in Facebook decision
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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