CPT on FTC June 4-5 Privacy Workshop

[James Love <love@tap.org>]

              Consumer Project on Technology
           P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
              http://www.essential.org/cpt

June 3, 1996

Martha Landesberg
Federal Trade Commission
via Internet:  mlandesberg@ftc.gov


Dear Ms Landesberg:

I am writting to express our disappointment at the rooster of 
panel members for the June 4 and 5, 1996 FTC "Public Workshop on 
Consumer Privacy."   It appears as though the vast majority of 
panel members represent companies who have interests which are 
often at odds with policies to enhance personal privacy.  This is 
particularly true for the sessions on June 4.

While we were pleased to see that Robert Ellis Smith, Evan 
Hendricks and Marc Rotenberg are presented on all five FTC 
privacy panels for June 4, we were disappointed about the overall 
lack of balance.  As you know, we were not permitted to 
participate on the June 4 Session  3 panel, on the topic of 
medical and financial information online.  Indeed, for this panel 
we were surprised that many well known medical records privacy 
advocates we not even contacted for this panel. One would have 
expected to see Dr. Denise Nagel from the Coalition for Patient 
Rights, Professor Beverly Woodward from Brandeis, or Don Haines 
from the American Civil Liberties Union, to name just a few.

We were also puzzled to see that the Center for Democracy and 
Technology (CDT) was represented on every panel for both June 4 
and June 5 sessions, even though this non-profit is largely seen 
as an advocate for industry interests, rather than for privacy 
rights.  Indeed, with CDT's expensive funding from AT&T, IBM, 
TRW, Equifax, Direct Marketing Association, Dun and Bradstreet, 
American Online, Prodigy, Compuserve, MARC, Netscape, US West and 
many additional industry groups that are represented on the FTC 
privacy panels, it seems as though the FTC could have done a 
better job of reaching out to privacy advocates.  (Of course, CDT 
does have a knowledgeable staff, and considerable expertise on 
these issues.  But CDT isn't considered to be a consumer or 
privacy advocate.)

I hope that in the future the FTC does a better job to including 
groups who represent consumer interests, than will be the case 
for the June 4, 1996 panels. 

Sincerely,


James Love, Director
Consumer Project on Technoliogy
http://www.essential.org/cpt
202/387-8030; 202/234-5176





June 4, 1996:   Session 1, the Use of Consumer Information

INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED

Association of National Advertisers (Daniel Jaffe)
American Association of Advertising Agencies (John Kamp)
US WEST (Katherine Krause)
Information Industry Association (Krause, Plesser)
Interactive Services Association (Jack Drumholtzx)
Piper & Marbury, Ron Plesser (who also represents IIA, DMA , D&B, 
and others)
Internet Profiles Corporation (Ariel Poler)
Direct Marketing Association (Robert Sherman)
Equifax (Alan Westin)

June 4, 1996:   Session 2, the Electronic Regimes for Protecting 
Consumer Privacy Online

INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED

Prodigy  (Brian Elk)
Interactive Services Association (Brian Elk)
Netscape (Peter Harter)
Association of National Advertising Agencies (John Kamp)
US West  (Kathern Krause)
Information Industry Association (Katherine Krause)
Compuserve  (Pierce Reid)
Direct Marketing Association (Pierce Reid)
AT&T (Paul Resnick)
Internet Profiles Corporation (Ariel Poler)
Equifax (Alan Westin)


June 4, 1996:   Session 3 - Use of Medical and Financial 
Information Online


	INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED

TRW (Trudie Bushey)
American Bankers Association (Kawika Kaguio)
American Health Information Management Associaiton (AHIMA, 
Kathleen Frawley)
American Association of Advertising Agencies (John Kamp)
AT&T (Janet Koehler)
IMS America (D&B company, Robert Merold)
Direct Marketing Association (Robert Sherman)
Equifax   (Alan Westin)


Session 4 - the Impact of the European Union's Directive on 
Protection of Personal Data

INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED

Reader's Digest (Mari Anne Blatch)
IBM (Roger Cochetti)
Interactive Services Association (Roger Cochetti)
Dun & Bradstreet (Gary Friend)
American Association of Advertising Agencies (John Kamp)
Canadian Direct Marketing Associaiton (Scott McLellan)
Piper and Murbury (DMA, IIA, D&B, Ron Plesser)


June 4, 1996:   Session 5 - Consumer and Business Education in 
Online Privacy Issues

INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED

America Online (William Burrington)
Interactive Services Association (William Burrington)
Council of Better Business Bureaus (Steven Cole)
National Retail Federation (Mallory Duncan)
Direct Marketing Association (Connie Heatley)
American Association of Advertising Agencies (John Kamp)
Equifax (Alan Westin)



Appearing on every panel on June 4

Janlori Goldman, Center for Democracy and Technology* 
Linda Golodner, National Consumers League 
Robert Ellis Smith, Privacy Jouranal 
Evan Hendricks, Privacy Times
Marc Rotenberg, EPIC 
National Association of Attorney Generals 
John Kamp, AAAA
Alan Westin, consultant to Equifax


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June 5, 1996:  All Day Workshop on Privacy, Children and 
Cyberspace

INDUSTRIES REPRESENTED

Prodigy (Brian Elk)
Direct Marketing Association (Patricia Faley)
Microsysems Software (Susan Getgood)
Netscape (Peter Harter)
PrivnNet (James Howard)
Association of National Advertisers (Daniel Jaffe)
American Association of Advertising Agencies
Interactive Services Association
Caru (Elizabeth Kascoutx)
Magnet Studios (Lucy Lieberman)
Kellogg (Bill Nielsen)
Kellogg (Karen Kafer)
Modem Media (Gerald O'Connell)
Kraft Foods (Paul Petroccelli)
American Advertising Federation (Paul Petroccelli)
American Online (David Phillips)
TROVE Investment Corporation &Net Nanny  (Gordon Ross)
New View Communications (Chuck Runge)
Safe Surf (Wendy Simpson)
Direct Marketing Services (Craig Stevens)
McGraw-Hill (Bryan Waters)

Center for Democracy and Technology* (Jerry Berman)


Non industry

Consumers Union (Charolotte Baecher)
National Association of Attorney General's Office (MN-Doug 
Blanke)
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Dr. Michael 
Brody)
PTA (Arnold Fege)
Consumer Federation of America (May Fise)
Privacy Times (Evan Henricks)
Center for Media Education (Kathryn Montgomery)
Privacy Journal, Robert Ellis Smith 



*CDT basically represents industry interests on privacy matters.


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