Center for Democracy & Technology

CDT is urging the Federal Communications Commission to get more public comment on protecting privacy and the use of personal information in broadband applications as the agency crafts a National Broadband Plan.

The Center for Democracy & Technology filed a "friend of the court" brief in the Southern District of New York requesting that key privacy requirements be included in the Court's approval of the class-action settlement that would dramatically expand Google Book Search. The brief asks that the court approve the proposed settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuit between Google and authors and publishers, but to retain oversight in order to monitor implementation of a privacy plan.

Broadband must be defined and promoted in such a way as to ensure that its deployment will offer the full benefits of basic unrestricted Internet access, and not just narrower, purpose-built services which, although they may fulfill some specific public purposes, lack the robust access to diverse content and capacity for innovation that is the hallmark of the Internet.

The Center for Democracy & Technology and Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted joint comments to the Office of Management and Budget in response to the agency's proposed review of the policies governing the use of cookies and other web technologies.

The Center for Democracy and Technology released an update to the browser report it issued in October of 2008. The report includes updated information about privacy tools available in five Web Browsers.

The Center for Democracy & Technology released a report outlining a series of privacy and legal questions that surround the government computer monitoring system known as "Einstein."

A report analyzing the privacy risks associated with the proposed expansion of Google Book Search.

Center for Democracy and Technology filed a second round of comments in the FCC proceeding to create a national broadband plan. CDT emphasized that the broadband plan should expressly affirm key elements of the Internet's successful policy framework.

The Center for Democracy and Technology released a Policy Post discussing privacy implications for the federal data clearinghouse known as data.gov and de-identification considerations for the Open Government Directive. While...

A outline of issues related to the newly emerging location-enabled web. Location data should be under the control of the user; who collects it, what it gets used for, whether or not it gets shared and how long the data is stored are all decisions that should be in the hands of users, the Policy Post says.