Center for Digital Democracy Files Suit Against FTC

The Center for Digital Democracy has filed suit in US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Federal Trade Commission alleging that it has wrongfully withheld records about online safe harbor programs that CDD sought under the Freedom of Information Act.

CDD is looking for annual reports to the FTC from various safe harbor programs under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. CDD says that the FTC has violated the statutory time limit for processing FOIA requests and wants the court to force the FTC to produce the requested records, disclose them with all fees waived, pay CDD's attorneys fees, and any other remedy the court thinks appropriate.