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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 [...]

I wrote here a couple of months ago about the shady practice among a few Internet retailers of handing off customers who accept a “special offer” to a company that charges people a monthly fee for some kind of credit monitoring service. And I argued hopefully that maybe technologists and the Internet community could generate [...]