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Upgrading Your Phone This Holiday Season? The FTC Can Help with That
LGBT Tech
  • Dec 3, 2019
  • 1 min

Upgrading Your Phone This Holiday Season? The FTC Can Help with That

On November 15, the Federal Trade Commission released a blog post title "Upgrading Your Phone? 4 Things You Should Do First." The blog post, linked below, offers instructions for clearing personal data off phones before trading them in (although the post focuses on phones primarily, the information could easily apply to other tech devices). Included in the FTC's post is this graphic, which outlines the four important steps people should take for clearing personal data off the
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Online Dating: Are You Swiping Left on Your Privacy?
Christopher Wood, Executive Director, LGBT Tech
  • Apr 9, 2019
  • 2 min

Online Dating: Are You Swiping Left on Your Privacy?

Last week, I joined MANA’s National President and CEO Amy Hinojosa for the first in a series of luncheon events on the politics of privacy at the AT&T Forum for Technology and Innovation. These luncheons are designed to address why women, communities of color and underserved communities, such as the LGBT community, have specific and different privacy concerns than other groups and should take online and data privacy even more seriously. This first discussion in the series tou
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LGBT Tech's NTIA Comments on Developing the Administration’s Approach to Consumer Privacy
Carlos Gutierrez - Head of Policy & Legal
  • Nov 15, 2018
  • 1 min

LGBT Tech's NTIA Comments on Developing the Administration’s Approach to Consumer Privacy

LGBT Tech has continued to weigh in on specific privacy concerns for the LGBTQ community and today, I’m excited to share another step we are taking to ensure policymakers are aware and have the information to adequately protect our community's unique needs when it comes to privacy. Today LGBT Tech filed in NTIA’s Request for Comment on Developing the Administration's Approach to Consumer Privacy (Docket No. 180821780-8780-01). LGBT Tech has consistently called for and continu
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LGBT Tech Files Comments on Restoring Internet Freedom
Carlos Gutierrez, Dep. Director & General Counsel
  • Jul 18, 2017
  • 3 min

LGBT Tech Files Comments on Restoring Internet Freedom

LGBT Tech has submitted initial comments addressing the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) In the Matter of Restoring Internet Freedom.[1] The NPRM seeks public comment on how to preserve the basic principles of net neutrality and in its comments, LGBT Tech reiterates that the FCC needs to establish rules that apply equally to all participants in the broadband space. The Internet has become an indispensable tool for members of
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FTC to Ban Conversion Therapy
LGBT Tech
  • Mar 3, 2016
  • 1 min

FTC to Ban Conversion Therapy

Please see our response in support of the Letter to FTC concerning the deceptive, unnecessary, ineffective, and dangerous practice known as ‘conversion therapy. ’ March 3, 2016 Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, Commissioner Julie Brill Commissioner Terrell McSweeny Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen Commissioner Joshua Wright Federal Trade Commission 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20580 Dear Chairwoman Ramirez, Commissioner Brill, Commissioner McSweeny, Commissioner Ohlhause
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