FTC Privacy Complaint Tool
- Became a project on
- October 28, 2009
CDT is actively hiring a web programmer to help complete this exciting social web project.
To help ensure that consumers have efficient and effective means of voicing and publicizing their online privacy concerns, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has joined with the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC-Berkeley to develop GetPrivacy, a tool that allows Internet users to file online privacy complaints with consumer protection authorities and to share those complaints on social networks. GetPrivacy consists of a short web form that consumers can use to describe their complaints. Our initial goal is to offer users the ability to submit complaints to the FTC and to share those complaints with CDT and similar organizations. The tool will also enable users to tell their friends about their complaints via social networking sites and encourage them to file their own complaints. We may at a later date extend the tool to enable complaints to be filed with state Attorney General offices or other state-level consumer protection offices. We also would like to explore how GetPrivacy could be used to generate metrics about consumer complaints.
This project is complete! Check out takebackyourprivacy.org. Big thanks to Mat Marquis for making it happen.
