Seth Frotman

Report calls on law enforcement and policymakers to use existing tools to protect the workplace

New York, NY — A new investigation released today finds that workplace monitoring platforms are systematically sharing personal data about workers and online activity with hundreds of outside data brokers and big tech companies in ways that are not clearly disclosed and that, in some cases, may contradict the platforms’ own privacy policies. The researchers examined nine widely used workplace monitoring platforms — Apploye, Deputy,...

In his essay for Democracy Journal, Seth Frotman identifies the real, relentless crime victimizing everyday Americans — an affordability crisis fueled by corporate tricks of illegally inflated prices, usurious loans, bait-and-switch subscriptions, and dark pattern deceptions. Compounding this problem, these same billionaires and large companies leverage their political sway to systematically weaken the government's ability to enforce the law, eroding public confidence that democracy can deliver for working people.

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Seth Frotman and Ben Kaufman’s op-ed in The Capitol Forum calls attention to the 1937 Tax Injunction Act, (TIA), which generally bars federal courts from blocking state taxes. The authors hold up the statute as a model of beneficial "jurisdiction stripping" that protects democratically chosen reform in the states from interference by corporate interests.

Using the TIA as an exemplar, the authors argue that Congress can and should more broadly assert its own authority, and prevent current examples of overreach by and through the federal judiciary, by taking...

Senior Fellow Seth Frotman featured in a New Yorker story discussing the CFPB under the second Trump administration.