2025-10-13T15:12:30-07:00 2024-12-31 274144417 Beverly Orr P O Box 19367 Washington DC 20036 990 2024-01-01 522311577 CENTER FOR DIGITAL DEMOCRACY CENT 2024947100 1015 15th Street NW Suite 600 Washington DC 20005 Jeffrey Chester President 2024947100 2025-10-10 1 1 Beverly Orr P01499752 2023612814 2025-10-01 X 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Jeffrey Chester 1015 15th Street NW Suite 600 Washington DC 20005 105491 0 X www.DemocraticMedia.org X 2001 DC The Center for Digital Democracy's (CDD) mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness and community. 4 3 3 3 0 0 1007359 7984 0 81139 162 16368 0 0 1007521 105491 0 3603 0 0 430448 443509 0 0 8645 132825 133868 563273 580980 444248 -475489 799718 320494 12384 8649 787334 311845 The Center for Digital Democracy's (CDD) mission is to ensure that digital technologies serve and strengthen democratic values, institutions and processes. CDD strives to safeguard privacy and civil and human rights, as well as to advance equity, fairness and community. CDD works to protect and expand digital rights and data justice through research-led initiatives designed to influence policymakers, corporate leaders, the news media, civil society and the general public. The organization focuses on developing and advocating for rules and policies that: (1) foster privacy, justice and non-discriminatory treatment in the digital marketplace; (2) safeguard young people against unfair, manipulative and other harmful practices; (3) promote responsible commercial data and digital marketing operations in political campaigns and elections; and (4) ensure that digital marketing practices contribute to fair and equitable public health outcomes. 0 0 532100 3603 81139 Digital Safeguards for Children and Youth: Children are growing up tethered to social media, video entertainment, gaming and mobile platforms operated by Facebook, Google, and other powerful corporations. There is a growing body of evidence documenting how the technology industry has significantly increased risks to children's privacy; bombarded them with misinformation, hate and racist speech; exposed them to cyberbullying and sexual predation and contributed to behaviors that threaten their health and well-being. It appears that just as they do for adults, digital platforms data practices can also produce disparate outcomes for children of color and low income youth exacerbating existing disparities in racial, economic and political equity. The growing power of global big tech platforms creates an urgent need for comprehensive, coordinated, international efforts to promote greater corporate accountability and stronger government policies on behalf of children, and to ensure that safeguards are built into the foundation of emerging platforms and services. The Center is working with allies to conduct a number of efforts aimed at informing the public, the news media and policymakers, about the growing risks to young people from the unregulated digital technology industry in order to elevate the importance of this issue in the policy disclosure, place it higher on the Washington political agenda, and ultimately bring about policy change. The Center's project is focused on the following objectives: Influencing major technology companies to strengthen their internal policies and practices for protecting the privacy of children and adolescents, analyzing emerging commercial technologies and services to assess their implications for youth exposure, and engaging with civil society organizations and other stakeholders in the U.S. and elsewhere to foster consensus and collaboration on how to protect privacy and the well-being of young people in the digital environment promoting public health policies in the digital environment - The Center continues its work addressing the impact of digital media on health outcomes, including the role that marketing plays in contributing to the obesity epidemic. The Center has produced numerous reports documenting how unhealthy foods are marketed to young people through digital media and continue to operate a comprehensive research and public education initiative on that issue. We also analyze how drug companies market their products on new media platforms, assessing their impact on influencing consumer and medical professional health behaviors ensuring competition in the retail and grocery sector-We track and analyze developments related to the transformation of retail as a result of new technologies and also omnichannel marketing strategies. Our in-depth research initiative identifies the latest trends and practices, making the information available to journalists, policymakers and NGOs. 13700 0 0 The Center's Media Accountability Program identifies, analyzes and develops public education initiatives to ensure the U.S. digital media system operates in ways that support democracy. 0 0 0 545800 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 4 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 X Beverly Orr 2024947100 1015 15th Street NW Suite 600 Washington DC 20005 Katharina Kopp Deputy Director 40 0 X 144100 0 13921 Jeffrey Chester President 40 0 X X 118342 0 7917 Kathryn Montgomery Research Director and Senior Strategist 40 0 X 116481 0 7824 Lauren-Glenn Davitan Chair 1.00 0 X 0 0 0 Nicholas Carter Managing Director 1.0 0 X 0 0 0 Javier Ruiz Diaz Director 1.0 0 X 0 0 0 378923 0 29662 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7984 0 7984 Contractual Services 900099 81139 81139 0 0 0 0 0 0 81139 16368 0 0 16368 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 105491 81139 0 16368 3603 3603 0 0 0 0 0 0 126259 114182 4646 7431 0 0 260581 260581 0 0 13029 13029 0 0 13484 13484 0 0 30156 29273 340 543 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13953 0 13953 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42872 41691 1181 0 0 0 0 0 29966 29088 339 539 4796 4656 54 86 0 0 0 0 2527 2452 29 46 24166 24166 0 0 9595 9595 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3414 0 3414 0 2579 0 2579 0 0 0 0 0 580980 545800 26535 8645 285665 10647 157377 164807 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7527 6390 22617 17962 5645 4655 343429 133920 0 0 0 0 0 0 75 75 799718 320494 12384 4963 0 0 0 3686 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12384 8649 X 762682 303623 24652 8222 787334 311845 799718 320494 -475489 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 0 0 X 1013736 529481 1007358 79807 6363 2636745 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1013736 529481 1007358 79807 6363 2636745 1323040 1313705 368 75 162 33479 16368 50452 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2687197 82667 0.48888 0.5056 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22617 17962 4655 0 0 0 0 4655 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Katharina Kopp Deputy Director 144100 0 0 0 0 0 7205 0 13921 0 165226 0 155385 0 Jeffrey A Chester Spouse of staff 122305 Compensation 0 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 2 Jeffrey Chester and Kathryn Montgomery are married. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The Executive Director reviews the 990 with the preparer before it is finalized. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c The Center for Digital Democracy circulates the conflict of interest form, annually. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The Center makes its governing documents and financial statements available to the public upon request. The Center for Digital Democracy filed a timely form 8868, Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File an Exempt Organization Return and it was approved.