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CONTACT:
Ari Schwartz CDT Policy Analyst Email: ari@cdt.org Phone: 202-637-9800 |
CDT Study Shows Only 2 of the Top 11 Candidates Have Privacy Policies Linked From the Candidate's Home Page
WASHINGTON — September 2, 1999 —
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) released a study today entitled "A First Test: The Candidates and Their Privacy Policies" which finds that, while campaign Web sites are asking for detailed personal information from volunteers and donors, most of the major presidential candidates are not telling visitors what happens to this information. Of the campaign Web sites with privacy policies, most did not clearly inform visitors about how their personal information will be handled by the campaign. Today, CDT sent letters to all of the campaigns asking four simple questions about how they handle personal information, the results of which will be published in a subsequent report.
The study, which only looked for the existence of a privacy policy and not the quality of the policy itself, reviewed the home, volunteer, and contribution pages of the top 11 candidates and found that:
"Many of the candidates have discussed the importance of privacy for the future," Ari Schwartz, CDT Policy Analyst said, "but their actions within their own campaign speak louder than their words."
The report suggested that visitors have a right to know what is happening to their information before volunteering or contributing to a campaign. To help citizens answer these questions, CDT has sent a letter to each of the campaigns asking if the campaign:
The other six candidates were given failing grades by the report's quite lenient standards.
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