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They Are Women In Technology. Hear Them Roar.
News Ferris spoke at a WITI session, held in Santa Clara, California, called 'Technology & Democracy'. Several women had suggestions for attendees on how to get more involved in promoting democracy through technology.
[June 29, 1998, 9:09]
Anti-spyware: Into The Front Lines
News In the past few months, Ari Schwartz and the Washington, D.C.based Center for Democracy and Technology have leapt into the front ranks of the Net's spyware-fighters. They're not programmers by trade. Instead, they are using their D.C.experience and...
[February 12, 2004, 14:40]
Anti-adware Group Starts Naming-and-shaming Campaign
News Advertising money is what keeps the makers of adware in business, and advertisers should be more scrupulous, the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Washington-based public advocacy group, said on Monday.
[March 21, 2006, 12:10]
P3P: A Green Light For Privacy On The Web? Part II
News Several privacy advocates, including the Center for Democracy and Technology, participated in the brainstorming that laid the foundations of what would become P3P in 1995 and 1996. For one, many privacy advocates -- including the Electronic Privacy...
[July 5, 2000, 13:54]
Report Praises Search Engines' Privacy Efforts
News An analysis released on Wednesday by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) concluded that it is good news for consumers that Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask.com and AOL pledged in recent months to amend how they handle user search data.
[August 9, 2007, 11:57]
VoIP Eavesdropping Rules Face Mounting Challenge
News Also participating are the Center for Democracy and Technology, Pulver.com, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the telecommunications trade group CompTel. I think there's a very strong statutory argument that the FCC just overreached and doesn...
[October 25, 2005, 9:05]
FBI Agent: I Am Big Brother
News Dempsey, senior staff council for the technology-policy think tank Center for Democracy and Technology and a member of the panel, agreed, adding that more efficient data collection makes a privacy policy that much more critical.
[April 6, 2000, 9:37]
Privacy Concerns Continue To Grow
News Jerry Berman, executive director of technology policy group the Center for Democracy and Technology, reiterated many of the concerns that were voiced as the law was being considered last October, saying the bill's backers resisted public...
[April 19, 2002, 12:52]
Protection V/s Privacy
White Papers Senator Steve Kelly, Minnesota, Chair, NCSL Communications and Information Policy Committee moderates panel including Howard Safir, former NYC Police Commissioner, Jim Dempsey, Deputy Director, Center for Democracy and Technology, and Michael...
[August 14, 2003, 0:00]
Microsoft Takes Passport To Washington
News The company is here at the behest of the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), a consumer advocacy group that wishes to hear directly from the software maker on its plans, said Adam Sohn, Microsoft's manager for .Net platform strategy.
[August 23, 2001, 8:48]
Interactive TV: It's Watching You
News According to a report released Tuesday from the nonprofit Center for Digital Democracy, a raft of companies with interests in the interactive TV industry are creating technology to suck up data on viewers to better target advertisements or...
[June 27, 2001, 11:46]
U.S. Backs Off Private Monitoring
News But in spite of indications in a government document on the plan obtained by the Center for Democracy and Technology -- which indicates that private networks would also be watched -- the NSC spokesman denied that there is any plan for the...
[July 29, 1999, 10:53]
New Windows Lock Could Enable Copyright Crackdown
News There are potential privacy issues and potential privacy benefits," said Alan Davidson, associate director for the Center for Democracy and Technology, a tech-policy think tank. The Palladium technology still resides mainly on the white boards of...
[June 25, 2002, 9:08]
Antitrust: Is Google The Next Microsoft?
News People said Microsoft was the new AT&T," said Ari Schwartz of the Center for Democracy and Technology, which has received money from Microsoft, AT&T and Google. The EU, egged on by American consumer groups, like the Electronic Privacy Information...
[July 23, 2007, 17:36]
AOL Sorry For Search Data 'screw-up'
News We think it's a major privacy concern, and we're glad to see AOL is taking it seriously," said Ari Schwartz, deputy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology. Some researchers, however, contend the information serves a valuable purpose in...
[August 8, 2006, 9:00]
P3P: Green Light For Online Privacy?
News The idea is not to solve the privacy problem -- but to give consumers a critical part of the privacy equation," said Jerry Berman, executive director of the pro-privacy think tank Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT).
[July 5, 2000, 13:21]
Transparency 'crucial' For RFID Systems
News Paula Bruening, who works for US consumer rights organisation the Center for Democracy and Technology, spoke at the workshop about guidelines for RFID deployments recently released by her organisation.
[May 17, 2006, 16:30]
Google Health Beta Test Launched
News Google has done well with privacy for Google Health but there are larger issues that pose problems, said Leslie Harris, chief executive of the Center for Democracy and Technology. The service integrates with medical records already stored...
[May 20, 2008, 11:45]
FBI Digs Deeper Into The Web
News I hate to be in a position of telling people 'don't go online and speak' or 'watch what you say,' but you have to take from this that on an arbitrary basis, the FBI is going to be tagging people as terrorists based on what they say online," said...
[June 6, 2002, 12:28]
US Furor Rises Over PC Wiretap Plan
News Also condemning the plan were the Computer and Communications Industry Association, the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Americans for Computer Privacy. The proposal) strikes at the heart of the Bill of Rights," said David Sobel, general...
[August 23, 1999, 9:07]
