Livetweeting Another Senate Online Privacy Hearing Today (2:30pm EST)
by Berin Szoka on July 27, 2010 · 0 comments
The Senate Commerce Committee will hold yet another hearing today (7/27/10) at 2:30pm Eastern with two panels:
- Witness Panel 1
- FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz
- FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
- Witness Panel 2
- Guy “Bud” Tribble, Apple’s VP for Software Technology
- Bret Taylor, Facebook CTO
- Alma Whitten, Google’s Privacy Engineering Lead
- Jim Harper, Cato Institute
- Dorothy Atwood, AT&T’s Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Chief Privacy Officer
- Prof. Joe Turow, University of Pennsylvania
Join me to watch the livecast. I’ll be livetweeting on the #Privacy hashtag.
I summed up most of my thoughts on the online privacy issue in my written testimony to the FTC’s privacy roundtable last fall. Also check out my paper Privacy Polls v. Real-World Trade-Offs, which explains why Prof. Turow’s polls can’t really show us what choices consumers would make if actually presented with the trade-off between locking down on the use of their data and the content and services supported by advertising that relies on that data for its value.
About Berin Szoka
Berin is the founder of TechFreedom. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation and Director of PFF's Center for Internet Freedom. He covers Internet and media policy issues including privacy, advertising, neutrality, cybersecurity, free speech, child safety, and various other efforts to regulate the Net.
Berin was elected in 2010 to the Steering Committee of the DC Bar Association's Computer & Telecommunications Law Section. Before joining PFF, he practiced communications, Internet and satellite law as an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at Latham & Watkins LLP. Previously, he practiced at Lawler Metzger, a boutique telecommunications law firm in Washington and clerked for the late Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
A recognized expert on the legal and regulatory issues associated with space commercialization, Berin is a member of the FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). He is a Director, and former Chairman, of the Space Frontier Foundation, a citizens' advocacy group founded in 1988 and dedicated to opening the space frontier by enabling "NewSpace."
He received his Bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Submissions Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology.
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