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CDT Joins Partnership to Improve Public Representation in Internet Domain Name GovernanceLOS ANGELES -- The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) today announced its participation in a broad partnership to improve public understanding of the vital importance of domain names and Internet governance. As part of a campaign coordinated by the Markle Foundation, CDT will work to inform public interest groups, policymakers, and the public at large about the individual liberty, consumer rights, and Internet governance issues raised by management of the domain name system, the Internet's central naming and numbering process. |
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Most Presidential Candidates Say: "Do As I Say and Not As I Do" on Web Site Privacy PoliciesWASHINGTON — 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. |
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CDT AND OMB WATCH DEPUTIZE CITIZENS TO TRACK DOWN WANTED DOCUMENTSActivists, journalists, librarians and researchers have been concerned that the federal government has vast warehouses of information that are unclassified yet not readily available to the public on the Internet. But what are these documents? The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and OMB Watch, two Washington D.C. Advocacy groups, want to find out. They are seeking to identify the 10 most wanted government documents, reports or data sets that should be on the Web - but are missing in action due to the failure of the government to use the Internet fully. |
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ADVOCACY GROUPS SPEAK OUT ON GEORGETOWN INTERNET PRIVACY POLICY STUDYWASHINGTON — May 12, 1999 — Today the Draft Georgetown Internet Privacy Policy Survey, finds that while more Web sites are communicating to consumers about privacy, meaningful and effective privacy protections for consumers are still few and far between. |
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INTERNET FREE SPEECH PRECEDENT UNAFFECTED BY annoy.com RULINGYesterday's Supreme Court ruling in ApolloMedia v. Reno (the annoy.com case) does not in any way diminish the Internet free speech precedent established in ACLU v. Reno, the Supreme Court's landmark 1997 case striking down provisions of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) as unconstitutional. |
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FEDERAL AGENCY WEB SITES STILL LACK CLEAR PRIVACY NOTICESWASHINGTON — The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) is calling upon the Clinton Administration's new chief counselor for privacy, Peter Swire, to prove his claim that his office has the power to improve federal agency privacy protections. As a first step, CDT urges Swire to make sure that agencies have well-crafted and easy to find privacy policies posted on their Web sites. CDT is today releasing a new survey of federal government Web sites revealing that almost two-thirds are still not posting clearly labeled privacy notices linked from agency home pages. |
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Serbian Government Officials Again Stop Radio B92's Transmission, Take Station's Editor-in-chief Into CustodyBELGRADE — Radio B92 was at 2:50 this morning banned from further broadcasts.
Two technical operatives of the Yugoslav Federal Telecommunications Ministry, backed by about ten policemen, entered the
premises of Radio B92 and instructed its staff immediately to discontinue broadcasts.
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CDT DIRECTOR BERMAN APPOINTED TO CONGRESSIONAL COMMISSION ON ONLINE CHILD PROTECTIONWASHINGTON — March 5, 1999 — The Center for Democracy and Technology is pleased to announce that Executive Director Jerry Berman has been appointed to serve on the Congressional Commission on Online Child Protection, which was created last year as part of the Child Online Protection Act. |
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PRIVACY AND CONSUMER GROUPS FILE COMPLAINT AGAINST INTEL AT FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIONWASHINGTON — February 26, 1999 — Today, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Consumer Action and Private Citizen formally asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and halt the distribution of the Intel Pentium III Processor as a violation of individual privacy and, therefore, an unfair and deceptive trade practice under Section 5 of the FTC Act. |
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Groups Express Concern over Limits on Access to Public InformationWASHINGTON — Yesterday, a group of civil liberties, academic, journalist and public interest organizations sent a letter to Representative Thomas Bliley, Chairman of the House Commerce Committee, expressing concern over proposals to limit the availability of public information about the potential for accidents at chemical plants (EPA's unclassified Worst Case Scenarios data) on the Internet. |
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CIVIL LIBERTIES AND INDUSTRY GROUPS HAIL RULING IN INTERNET CENSORSHIP CASEWASHINGTON — February 2, 1999 — A broad group of publishers, librarians, civil libertarians and industry groups hailed yesterday's decision by a federal judge in Philadelphia blocking the government from enforcing the Child Online Protection Act, which has a potentially chilling effect on the Americans' right to free speech and fails to protect children. |
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COALITION OF INDUSTRY AND CIVIL LIBERTIES GROUPS SUPPORTS COURT FIGHT TO PROTECT FREE SPEECH ONLINEWASHINGTON — January 11, 1999 — A broad coalition of industry and civil liberties groups told a federal judge in Philadelphia today that the new Child Online Protection Act (COPA) violates the constitutional right of Americans to free speech and fails to protect children. |
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