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

New EU and US Consumer Studies Show Facebook, Google, Microsoft Fail Privacy; Eight Consumer Advocacy Groups Call Upon FTC to Investigate

CDD today joined the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and six other consumer groups in calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the misleading and manipulative tactics of Google and Facebook in steering users to “consent” to privacy-invasive default settings.

Consumer groups in the U.S. and EU urge Facebook to adopt the General Data Protection Regulation as a global baseline standard

In an open letter to Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckkerberg, members of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue urge the company "to confirm your company’s commitment to global compliance with the GDPR".

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)...

FEC must protect integrity of electoral system and voter decision-making in the digital era

The Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) respectfully urges the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to adopt regulations to ensure that voters will have meaningful transparency and control over the digital data and marketing practices used in elections today.