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  • CDD Memo to FTC on Facebook Consent Decree Violations--2013

    By: Jeff Chester | Aug 2 2019

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    FTC has long ignored how market operates-it still does in 2019
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  • What FTC needs to do to address Google/YouTube violations of kids privacy law

    By: Jeff Chester | Jul 22 2019

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    If FTC 3-2 decision does not include the following serious remedies, as listed below, it has failed to be effective protecting children & enforcing the law

    Proposed Consent Order Penalties and Conditions

    The FTC should seek a 20-year consent decree which includes the following forms of relief:

    Injunctive relief

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  • Time to Legislate COPPA 2.0

    By: Jeff Chester | Jul 17 2019

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    FTC's Proposed COPPA Review comes too late; Agency cannot be relied on to protect youth, families

    Today, the FTC announced plans to review the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) rules.  CDD and allies successfully campaigned to have the law's rules expanded in 2012, to ensure that the privacy of children 12 and under was better protected in today's "Big Data" driven cross-device environment.

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  • Center for Digital Democracy’s Principles for U.S. Privacy Legislation

    By: Katharina Kopp | Oct 9 2018

    The Center for Digital Democracy provides the following recommendations for comprehensive baseline Federal privacy legislation. We are building on our expertise addressing digital marketplace developments for more than two decades, including work leading to the enactment of the 1998 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act--the only federal online privacy law in the United States. Our recommendations are also informed by our long-standing trans-Atlantic work with consumer and privacy advocates in Europe, as well as the General Data Protection Regulation.

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  • Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Google, the GDPR and Digital Marketers: Will Big Brands and Advertisers Pull the Plug that has Erased Privacy?

    By: Jeff Chester | Mar 30 2018

    A digital “great awakening” has occurred with unprecedented global attention given to the commercial surveillance business model at the core of our collective digital experience.

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  • AT&T, Comcast & Verizon Expand “Big Data” Tracking & Targeting of Consumers

    By: Jeff Chester | Mar 8 2018


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  • Canadians Advance Bill to Limit the Marketing of Unhealthy Foods to Children, Including Online

    By: Katharina Kopp | Feb 20 2018


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  • The Role of Digital Marketing in Political Campaigns

    By: Jeff Chester | Jan 20 2018

    Computational politics—the application of digital targeted-marketing technologies to election campaigns in the US and elsewhere—are now raising the same concerns for democratic discourse and governance that they have long raised for consumer privacy and welfare in the commercial marketplace. This paper examines the digital strategies and technologies of today’s political operations, explaining how they were employed during the most recent US election cycle, and exploring the implications of their continued use in the civic context.

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  • Big Cable Companies Track & Target You via TV, Mobile, PC

    By: Jeff Chester | Nov 1 2017

    Learn about NCC Digital Media: the primary source for reaching consumers across all screens, helping brands target consumers across all screens. 

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  • Big Data Turns Your TV into Powerful Digital Spy

    By: Jeff Chester | Sep 28 2017

    Targeted TV ad company Simulmedia is partnering with Oracle Data Cloud, a data service company, to target advertisements to consumers based on their in-store purchases.

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  • Consorting With the Frenemy: Ad Tech Players Partner For Shared Identity Matching

    By: Jeff Chester | Sep 25 2017


    Seven independent ad tech companies debuted a programmatic consortium on Thursday that pools their supply- and demand-side cookie IDs into one shared identity asset. 

    The consortium is helmed by AppNexus, MediaMath and LiveRamp, which provides the data matching. Other launch partners include Index Exchange, Rocket Fuel, LiveIntent and OpenX.

    And it’s a shot across the bow of Facebook and Google, which suck in a majority of digital ad dollars.

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  • Political Scholars, NGOs Call on Facebook, Digital Industry to Support Rules for Political Campaigns

    By: Jeff Chester | Sep 23 2017

    Released on September 22, 2017 at a political microtargeting conference held in Amsterdam, in response to the recent announcement by Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg on changes to how they conduct political ad campaigns.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      


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  • Without Broadband Privacy, Californians Losing Key Consumer Protection Rights—Example 1

    By: Jeff Chester | Sep 18 2017

    Integrated into their end-to-end platform, Smartplay provides a real-time, one-to-one connection to viewer’s device, enabling them to optimize monetization opportunities.

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  • Phone and Cable ISPs Assemble a Big Data Commercial Surveillance Apparatus Aimed at Californians: Use of “hyperlocal” data targeting practices bring greater privacy threats to neighborhoods and communities.

    By: Jeff Chester | Sep 13 2017

    1. Key control of multiple devices, including TV. ISPs have positioned themselves to expand their consumer data collection across all the devices/platforms they operate. This includes broadband connections (including streaming media), mobile devices, PCs, and also TV. Unlike Google and Facebook, the cable and telephone ISPs largely control the TV set. Comcast has enabled its NBC division to use its set-top box data for targeting, for example.

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  • Equifax Unveils Data-driven Marketing Capabilities to Help Brands Drive Maximum Customer Value

    By: Jeff Chester | Sep 13 2017

    Equifax Inc., a global information solutions provider, today unveiled its next-generation Data-driven Marketing capabilities, designed to help brands conquer the challenges preventing them from realizing their data-driven marketing goals. 

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  • Big Data, Digital Marketing and the Equifax Data Breach

    By: Jeff Chester | Sep 13 2017

    “Marketers. Ready, aim, engage! It is easier than ever to hit the right marketing targets,” explains Equifax about its far-reaching data capabilities that capture, analyze, and sell our information. Equifax’s admission last week about its loss of personal information on 143 million Americans—including Social Security and drivers license numbers—is also a wake-up call about the dramatic loss of our privacy in the digital era.

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  • Comcast, Cox, Charter Sell Your Data to Political Groups

    By: Jeff Chester | Sep 5 2017


    What connects cable, online and on demand viewers? NCC Digital Video. 

    NCC’s approach to advertising reaches premium voter audiences across all screens. 

    Only NCC has the unrivaled ability to target authenticated subscribers in a variety of ways across premium cable content and websites. And with our targeting technology, NCC can continue to target this subscriber as well as additional specific audiences throughout the web. 

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  • Broadband Co’s Spy on Your TV Viewing and Sell to Political Groups—Part III

    By: Jeff Chester | Sep 1 2017

    Deep Root Analytics, a leading media & audience analytics company that creates data platforms for audience targeting and ad monitoring, announced today that it has expanded the number of audiences available with D2 Media Sales to enable political, corporate & advocacy advertisers to target Dish and DIRECTV households using proprietary audience segments.

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  • Broadband Co’s Spy on Your TV Viewing and sell to Political Groups—Part II

    By: Jeff Chester | Aug 30 2017

    Political data firms on both sides of the aisle have bolstered their addressable TV capabilities. Today, Democratic data firm TargetSmart and Republican data outfit Data Trust each announced new partnerships with TV data providers. The outcome should be even more TV spots, especially from congressional campaigns, targeted to households of key voter segments than ever before.

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  • Health Wearable Devices Pose New Consumer and Privacy Risks

    By: Kathryn Montgomery, Jeff Chester, Katharina Kopp | Aug 29 2017


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