Baseline Privacy Legislation
New technology has created powerful new ways for consumers to live their lives online and for industry and government to gather, store, sort, analyze, locate, correlate, and disseminate data, some of which is personal data. To address the privacy challenges raised by new technologies and practices, CDT has recommended that Congress update the Privacy Act of 1974 and address online privacy risks broadly by enacting a baseline consumer privacy law that would protect consumers from inappropriate collection and misuse of their personal information, both online and offline.
CDT has created a working group of public interest groups, government representatives and industry to develop suggestions to address them. CDT also drafted The E-Privacy Act Amendments of 2009 in an effort to collect these ideas and offer them for public comment through a wiki-style Web site, eprivacyact.org.
Follow the latest CDT news with Press Releases, Events, and where we've been featured around the Internet.
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Ari Schwartz will participate in an FTC Privacy Roundtable panel titled “Architecture, Privacy and the Internet." Event: Ari Schwartz will participate in the FTC Privacy Roundtable to be held on March 17 in Washington,... |
3/17/2010 | |
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Improve Your Family’s Online Privacy With Plugins Commentary: In our guest posts here on Geekdad, we at CDT talk a lot about how Internet users need stronger... |
1/18/2010 | |
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Leslie Harris, Preventing the Next Privacy Disaster, The Huffington Post, Oct. 15, 2008 Commentary: The U.S. has some of the weakest consumer privacy protections in the world. That fact was forgotten... |
10/15/2008 | |
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CDT, CAP Issue New Report on Consumer Privacy and Protection Statement: CDT Joined with the Center for American Progress today to release a new report about online privacy... |
7/24/2006 | |
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High-Profile Companies Announce Support for Privacy Law Statement: A group of high-profile companies today announced that they would support in principle the creation... |
6/20/2006 |
Policy Posts deliver in-depth analysis of current issues affecting the Internet. These documents are a leading resource for policy makers, the press, industry representatives, students, and others interested in legal and policy issues affecting the Internet.
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| Protecting Privacy in Online Identity: A Review of the Letter and Spirit of the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s Application to Identity Providers | 1) CDT Submits Comments in regards to the FTC’s Third Consumer Privacy... | 3/9/2010 | |
| CDT Files Two Sets of Comments to the FCC about the Importance of Privacy in the Context of the National Broadband Plan | 1) CDT Files Two Sets of Comments to the FCC about the Importance of Privacy in the Context of the... | 1/26/2010 | |
| Refocusing the FTC’s Role in Privacy Protection | 1) 1) CDT Submits Comments in regards to the FTC Consumer Privacy Roundtable 2) The Significance of... | 11/10/2009 |
Find all our latest testimony, papers, and other reports here.
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CDT Comments to the European Commission on Consultation on the Legal Framework for the Fundamental Right to Protection of Personal Data Comment: The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) is pleased to offer this contribution to the... |
12/31/2009 | ||
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Refocusing the FTC’s Role in Privacy Protection: CDT Comments Brief: The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) welcomes the opportunity to submit comments for the... |
11/5/2009 | ||
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Testimony of David Sohn on "Electronic Payments Tax Reporting: Another Tax Burden for Small Businesses" Testimony: Testimony of David Sohn before the House Committee on Small Business on "Electronic Payments... |
David Sohn | 6/12/2008 | |
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Testimony of Deirdre Mulligan Testimony: Testimony of Deirdre Mulligan, Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology to the House... |
Deirdre Mulligan | 3/26/1998 | |
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Testimony ofDeirdre Mulligan Testimony: Testimony of Deirdre Mulligan, Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology to the House... |
3/24/1998 |