By: Jeff Chester | Dec 7 2022
Big Tech Payment Platforms Supplemental Comments of USPIRG and the Center for Digital Democracy CFPB-2021-0017 December 7, 2022
United States Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) submit these additional comments to further inform the Bureau’s inquiry. They amplify the comments USPIRG and CDD submitted last year.[1]
By: Jeff Chester | Nov 22 2022
Children and teenagers experience widespread commercial surveillance practices to collect data used to target them with marketing. Targeted and personalized advertising remains the dominant business model for digital media, with the marketing and advertising industry identifying children and teens as a prime target. Minors are relentlessly pursued while, simultaneously, they are spending more time online than ever before. Children’s lives are filled with surveillance, involving the collection of vast amounts of personal data of online users.
By: Jeff Chester | Nov 21 2022
“Acute Myeloid Lymphoma,” “ADHD,” “Brain Cancer,” “High Cholesterol,” “Lung Cancer,” “Overweight,” “Pregnancy,” “Rheumatoid Arthritis,” “Stroke,” and “Thyroid Cancer.” These are just a handful of the digitally targetable medical condition “audience segments” available to surveillance advertisers While health and medical condition marketers—including pharmaceutical companies and drug store chains—may claim that such commercial data-driven marketing is “privacy-compliant,” in truth it reveals how vulnerable U.S.
Nov 17 2022
Contact:
David Monahan, Fairplay: david@fairplayforkids.org
Jeff Chester, Center for Digital Democracy: jeff@democraticmedia.org
Advocates to FTC: Write rules to protect kids from harmful manipulative design online At every turn, young people face tricks and traps to keep them online for hours
and sharing sensitive data.
By: Jeff Chester | Jul 19 2022
Jun 2 2022
David Monahan, Fairplay david@fairplayforkids.org Jeff Chester, CDD jeff@democraticmedia.org; 202-494-7100
Advocates call on FTC to investigate manipulative design abuses in popular FIFA game Groups say FIFA: Ultimate Team preys on children’s vulnerability with loot boxes, “funny money”
Jan 26 2022
January 26, 2022
Federal Trade Commission
Office of the Secretary
600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20580
Re: Comment on Petition for Rulemaking by Accountable Tech, FTC-2021-0070
INTRODUCTION
By: Jeff Chester | Jan 26 2022
By: Jeff Chester | Dec 21 2021
[excerpt]
Aug 4 2021
CDD joins 23 other public interest, consumer advocacy, and civil rights groups in a letter urging the Federal Trade Commission to protect civil rights and privacy in the digital economy by initiating a new rulemaking, creating an Office of Civil Rights, and committing more resources to enforce against unfair and deceptive practices.
May 28 2021
Apr 1 2021
Jeff Chester, CDD jeff@democraticmedia.org; 202-494-7100
David Monahan, CCFC, david@commercialfreechildhood.org
Advocates say Google Play continues to disregard children’s privacy law and urge FTC to act
Jun 24 2020
Jeff Chester, CDD (jeff@democraticmedia.org; 202-494-7100)
David Monahan, CCFC (david@commercialfreechildhood.org;)
Statement from Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Center for Digital Democracy on Comments filed with FTC regarding Endorsement Guides
May 14 2020
Advocates Say TikTok In Contempt of Court Order
More kids than ever use the site due to COVID19 quarantine, but TikTok flouts settlement agreement with the FTC
Dec 12 2019
Washington, December 11, 2019
By: Jeff Chester | Dec 5 2019
EMBARGOED UNTIL DECEMBER 5, 2019 AT 12:01 AM
Jeffrey Chester, CDD, jeff@democraticmedia.org, (202) 494-7100
Josh Golin, CCFC, josh@commercialfreechildhood.org; 617-896-9369
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
Dec 5 2019
Oct 8 2019
Most parents can tell you the most popular website for kids is YouTube. But for years, while Google made millions luring children to YouTube, vacuuming up their sensitive information, and using it to target them with ads, Google told the Big Lie: “YouTube is not for kids. It says so right in our terms of service.”
That has now changed, thanks to the advocacy of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the support of a coalition of advocacy groups.
By: Jeff Chester | Jul 8 2019
Letter sent on June 3 2019 to Chairman Simons and FTC Commissioners in response to a call made by the Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood and CDD, represented by our attorneys from the Institute for Public Representation (IPR), Georgetown University Law Center with the commission.
Jun 25 2019
June 25, 2019
