Center for Digital Democracy

Big Data, Digital Marketing and the Equifax Data Breach

DIGITAL CONSUMER

Groups Call on Facebook to Disclose and Explain Its Collection of Psychological Insights About Its Youngest Users

DIGITAL YOUTH

Death of Net Neutrality Will Spur Greater Loss of Digital Privacy, Further Content Consolidation & Control

DIGITAL CITIZEN

DIGITAL HEALTH

Advocates Call on FCC to Protect Programming and Advertising Safeguards for Children's TV

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.

Big Data, Digital Marketing and the Equifax Data Breach

DIGITAL CONSUMER

Groups Call on Facebook to Disclose and Explain Its Collection of Psychological Insights About Its Youngest Users

DIGITAL YOUTH

Death of Net Neutrality Will Spur Greater Loss of Digital Privacy, Further Content Consolidation & Control

DIGITAL CITIZEN

DIGITAL HEALTH

Advocates Call on FCC to Protect Programming and Advertising Safeguards for Children's TV

Child Advocacy and Consumer Groups Tell FCC to Keep Key TV Safeguards for Children

September 25, 2018 Contact: Jeff Chester-202-494-7100 David Monahan 617-896-9397

CDD calls on Senate to probe how digital giants really gather and use our data - provides questions to ask Google, AT&T, Amazon and others

Advocates Call on FTC to Address Privacy and Welfare of Young People in Its Upcoming Hearings

The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), Berkeley Media Studies Group, and Color of Change urge the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to specifically acknowledge the important issues involving the privacy and welfare of young people by adding this issue to its proposed hearing agenda on competition and consumer welfare.

Advocates Say Google’s YouTube Violates Federal Children’s Privacy Law

WASHINGTON, DC—April 9, 2018—Today, a coalition of leading U.S. child advocacy, consumer, and privacy groups represented by the Institute for Public Representation filed a complaint(link is external) urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate and sanction Google for violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)...