Re:

["Marc Rotenberg" <rotenberg@epic.org>]

        Reply to:   RE>



I am once again confused by a statement from Deidre.  She writes:

>        On the issue of funding, CDT has been, and will continue to be,
> open and up-front about our funders.  We receive funding from a wide cross
> section of the information, computer and communications industry, and from
> foundations and individuals.  To advance our civil liberties agenda more
> effectively, CDT builds coalitions around specific issues between the
> public interest community and industry.

But in the Computer Crime Report posted by Gordon Cook, Janlori says:

>      "The corporate funding is not related at all, in any way
> shape or form to my work on this bill," Goldman said.

So, what exactly is the story? Is the money from  Dunn & Bradstreet 
Corp., Equifax Inc., and TRW Information Services part of the
decision-making here? Or is that tied to some other CDT activity?

A related question concerns a CDT funder listed as "MARC" (no relation!) 
that contributed $80,000.  I never heard of this company so I did a little
research and found this listing for a Texas based firm named MARC:

    M/A/R/C provides marketing services to large consumer-product 
    and service companies. It has designed and developed proprietary 
    computer-based systems for providing marketing-research services 
    such as product and advertising testing.  In addition, the company 
    provides services designed to measure and track customer satisfaction, 
    and implements databases consisting of both existing and potential 
    customers for a given product. The company provides these services to
    more than 200 clients who market consumer, agricultural, business, or 
    industrial  products.

Is this company also involved in the CDT "coalition" that Diedre described?

Marc.