http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45798,00.html A DoubleClick executive has taken a top post at the Department of Commerce. Nuala O'Connor, DoubleClick's vice president for data protection and chief privacy officer, will start Aug. 13 as Commerce's deputy director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning. Long the target of lawsuits and public outcry -- even earning an infamous "Big Brother" award from Privacy International -- DoubleClick's demographic profiling database targets advertisments to Web users based on their Internet habits. "I will be assisting Don Trigg, the office's director, in advising commerce secretary Donald Evans on an array of policy issues," O'Connor wrote in an e-mail to friends this week. "As a result, my last day at DoubleClick will be [Friday]." Left-leaning privacy groups will certainly howl about this latest example of the Bush administration selling out to corporations. However, those with long-term memory cells will remember that President Clinton filled his administration with former liberal nonprofit group execs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe, visit http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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