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Meaningful Opt-Out Rights Require Companies to Do Their Part. State Governments Might Have to Make Them.
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CDT Helps Form New W3C Privacy Working Group
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Report — Rules of the Road: Political Advertising on Social Media in the 2024 U.S. Election
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Brief – Defining Contextual Advertising
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So Much for the “Privacy Sandbox”: Google Backtracks on Commitment to Deprecate Third-Party Cookies
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The European Data Protection Board’s Opinion on “Pay or Okay” Models – Surveillance-based Advertising is on Borrowed Time
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Deprecating third-party cookies: a small step towards a more private web
CDT Europe Joins EPD and Civil Liberties Union for Europe in Outlining Still-Needed Improvements for EU Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising. White document on grey background.

CDT Europe Joins EPD and Civil Liberties Union for Europe in Outlining Still-Needed Improvements for EU Regulation on Transparency and Targeting of Political Advertising
CDT Comments in response to FTC's Proposed Consent Order with X-Mode Social, Inc., and Outlogic, LLC. White document on grey background.

CDT Comments in response to FTC’s Proposed Consent Order with X-Mode Social, Inc., and Outlogic, LLC
CDT Comments on Global Privacy Control and Colorado’s Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms. White document on a grey background.

CDT Comments on Global Privacy Control and Colorado’s Universal Opt-Out Mechanisms
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It’s Time to Standardize the Global Privacy Control
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From Our Fellows: How Online Behavioral Advertising Harms People