So the FTC is holding a two-day workshop on Internet advertising in Washington this week: http://ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/ehavioral/index.shtml This is important because these workshops often, but not always, precede formal regulations. I'm speaking on the 9am panel if you're interested; it is webcast. What's happened in the last few days is a bunch of announcements including a call for a "Do Not Target" list to be set up by the FTC that companies would be "required" to abide by upon pain of federal sanction: http://www.cdt.org/privacy/20071031consumerprotectionsbehavioral.pdf And some of the pro-regulatory/anti-advertising types are calling for a formal investigation of Google, Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo's data collection practices, a new FTC task force to be created, and an inquiry into target marketing by Facebook and MySpace.com: http://www.democraticmedia.org/files/pdf/FTCadprivacy.pdf My own view (not exactly pro-regulatory) is here: http://www.news.com/the-iconoclast/8301-13578_3-9809195-38.html -Declan _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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