Last week, I spoke to a group of Capitol Hill staffers about the current debate over online privacy policy. The topic is red-hot right now with 6 major bills pending and plenty of international and state-based activity percolating. I offered the staffers an overview of these issues as well as an alternative vision for how we might handle privacy concerns going forward.
I have embedded the video of my briefing below and it can also be found on the Mercatus website here. And the slide deck I used that day can also be found down below or over on Scribd here.
Related Reading:
- Adam Thierer, Filing to Federal Trade Commission in ‘Do Not Track’ Proceeding, February 18, 2011.
- Adam Thierer, “Birth of the ‘Privacy Tax,’” Forbes, April 4, 2011.
- Adam Thierer, “Online Privacy Regulation: Likely More Complicated (And Costly) Than Imagined,” Mercatus on Policy, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, December 6, 2010 .
- Adam Thierer, “Erasing Our Past on the Internet,” Forbes, April 17, 2011.
- Adam Thierer, “Unappreciated Benefits of Advertising and Commercial Speech,” Mercatus on Point 86, Mercatus Center, January 2011.
- Berin Szoka and Adam Thierer, “COPPA 2.0: The New Battle over Privacy, Age Verification, Online Safety & Free Speech,” Progress on Point 16, no.11, The Progress & Freedom Foundation, May 21, 2009.
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