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Center for Digital Democracy

The Center for Digital Democracy combines research, public education and policy advocacy on data justice and digital marketing. This assessment concerns shared policy capacity and institutional accountability, not a finding that every campaign or legal filing succeeds.

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Systemic Altruism practice potential: 76–86/100
90% of weighted axes reviewed. A mechanism hypothesis, not proven effectiveness or a donation recommendation.

Who this work enables

Tools & support for charities: Shared research, policy analysis and coalition learning can help civil-society organizations and public institutions understand digital-marketing practices without rebuilding every evidence base.

Humanity’s Checklist source match

Attention · Gatekeepers — editorial, partial alignment.

CDD targets commercial digital-marketing incentives and concentrated platform/data power, connecting partially to Attention and Gatekeepers. This is not endorsement of all regulatory proposals or verified checklist adoption.

Explicit checklist adoption: not verified. A mechanism match is not an affiliation, endorsement, evidence of effectiveness or a scoring bonus. Read the practice.

Focus classification: 2026-10-27. Based on the organization’s dated official sources below; earlier axis-review dates are unchanged.

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The proposed pathway

Equip civil society and policymakers to challenge commercial digital surveillance

Six dimensions, with rationale

Structural depth

4 / 4

Research-led advocacy seeks changes in digital-market rules and commercial data incentives rather than only help individuals manage one privacy incident.

Institutional reach

3 / 4

Shared evidence and policy capacity can influence regulators, civil society and digital institutions; independently attributable reach was not measured.

Durability

3 / 4

Enforced data protections and institutional safeguards can persist beyond one grant, while oversight and evolving technical practices require ongoing support.

Scalability

3 / 4

Research and coalition methods can be shared across contexts, but legal systems, enforcement capacity and platform practices require adaptation.

Funding additionality

Unreviewed

No current costed marginal research or advocacy bottleneck, replacement funding or causal donation counterfactual was audited.

Community agency

Unreviewed

Public-interest advocacy and coalition participation do not establish binding rights for affected users over nonprofit budgets, research agendas or proposed regulatory remedies.

Evidence and selection

Organization reported; current primary mechanism sources inspected

Illustrative inclusion to examine this mechanism. Inclusion is not an external recommendation or a verified comparative ranking.

A testable next question

Does a defined CDD evidence or coalition intervention produce independently documented improvements in enforceable digital-data protections compared with plausible alternatives, while preserving access and expression and accounting for other advocates?

Review confidence: Moderate for documented design; low for systemic attribution. The US Center for Digital Democracy nonprofit’s research-led digital-rights and coalition-support model, not the existing Center for Democracy & Technology profile or every coalition partner.

What remains uncertain

Current primary pages describe the organization and its policy work; the fixed September 8 IRS snapshot lists Center for Digital Democracy, EIN 52-2311577, in Washington, DC. That dated identity match is not independent current tax-eligibility certification. It is distinct from the Center for Democracy & Technology. The annual-report page contains historical reports, not a fresh financial or outcome audit. Filings, press coverage and organizational accounts of influence are not treated as causal evidence. No named software license was checked. Privacy, expression, child protection, competition and access trade-offs require policy-specific review; sharing research does not establish that every remedy is effective or proportionate.

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Axis review: 2026-10-27 · weighting method v0.2 (2026-10-26) · Method, conflicts and coverage