Mike France of BW on the TACD

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

http://www.businessweek.com/cgi-bin/ebiz/ebiz_frame.pl?url=/ebiz/9905/ep0503.htm

     PERSPECTIVE By Mike France
       May 3, 1999

Crafting a Magna Carta for Cyberspace
A new consumer-group alliance may worry some E-businesses, but it's
healthy for the Internet and the search for lasting cyber government

[snip]

UNPRECEDENTED GATHERING. Now a consumer protection counterpart to the
Global Business Dialogue has been created: the Transatlantic Consumer
Dialogue (TACD). An unprecedented gathering of 60 leading advocacy
groups in America and Europe, TACD plans on becoming the key voice for
consumers on critical E-business issues such as privacy, child 
protection, and taxation. U.S. members include the Consumers Union, 
Consumer Federation of America, and Public Citizen. The Netherlands' 
Consumenten-bond, the German Association of Consumer Organizations, 
and the Consumers Association of Austria are among the European
participants. Eventually, TACD hopes to invite advocacy groups from
Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

   [snip]

But while TACD may be a thorn in the side for many companies, in the
long run it's a plus. 

  
   [snip]


-- 
James Love, Director, Consumer Project on Technology
I can be reached at love@cptech.org, by telephone 202.387.8030,
by fax at 202.234.5176. CPT web page is http://www.cptech.org