Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD), our colleague and co-complainant in several FTC privacy petitions, has posted a serious blog critique called CDT's Privacy "Report" --Full Disclosure is Missing of a new report on Internet search privacy from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT's Search Privacy Practices report). From Jeff's blog:

CDT has long been an ally of the various data collection companies it purports to oversee on behalf of consumers. It's funded by a number of them. In fact Microsoft's Bill Gates helped raise money for the group just last March.[...]Most troubling is that CDT fails to acknowledge that the widespread and evolving role of interactive advertising practices by these companies--including behavioral targeting, "rich" immersive media, and virtual reality formats--pose a serious threat to privacy and personal autonomy. It is not just the "bad" actors that require federal legislation, as CDT's report suggests. If all Americans are to be protected online, the entire industry must be governed by federal policies designed to ensure privacy and consumer protection.