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CPT on FTC June 4-5 Privacy Workshop
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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James Love / love@tap.org / P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
Voice: 202/387-8030; Fax 202/234-5176
Center for Study of Responsive Law
Consumer Project on Technology; http://www.essential.org/cpt
Taxpayer Assets Project; http://www.tap.org
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