Published: November 2020

Advocates urge the Biden administration to reject Big Tech appointments to his cabinet

In a letter to President-elect Biden, consumer and privacy advocates urged the President-elect to avoid appointing representatives from tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google to his cabinet. These companies represent serious threats to privacy, democracy, innovation and to Americans’ economic well-being. Advocates warned that representatives from these companies should not hold positions of power within our government. Instead, advocates urged Biden to assemble a team of advocates that will represent working Americans and not the Big Tech companies that work to exploit them.

Consumer Action joined privacy and consumer advocates in urging President-elect Joe Biden to fill his cabinet with leaders who will champion working Americans instead of representatives from Big Tech that have made billions off the exploitation of people’s privacy and economic well-being.

Lead Organization

Public Citizen

Other Organizations

Public Citizen | Demand Progress Education Fund | Action Center on Race & the Economy | American Economic Liberties Project | American Family Voices | Americans for Financial Reform | Artist Rights Alliance | Athena | Awood Center | Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood | Center for Digital Democracy | Consumer Action | Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) | Fight for the Future | Fix Democracy First | Food & Water Watch | Future of Music Coalition | Global Exchange | Institute for Local Self-Reliance | Jobs With Justice | Main Street Alliance | Make the Road New York | Media Alliance | Open Markets Institute | Organic Consumers Association | Other98 | Parent Coalition for Student Privacy | People’s Parity Project | Progressive Democrats of America | Revolving Door Project | Sciencecorps | Take on Wall Street | The Democratic Coalition

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