Re: FTC to Hold High-Tech Issue Hearings

[Ken Pfeil <Ken () infosec101 org>]

For those of you wondering what the agenda was last Thursday, a link is
up here:

http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/events/feb2006agenda.htm

One of the things I found comical was Dell's Tom West defining a "legacy
system" as one that is older than October of 2004.

Best,
Ken

Richard M. Smith wrote:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060211/ap_on_hi_te/ftc_technology_hearings
>
> WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission will host hearings this fall on
> emerging technologies being exploited by Internet spies and identity
> thieves. 
>
> The FTC last held similar hearings in 1995, when the technology to create
> now familiar problems such as spyware and spam was still in its infancy.
>
> "It is time to look ahead and examine the next generation of issues to
> emerge in our high-tech global marketplace," FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt
> Majoras said at an anti-spyware conference Thursday. "Ten years is an
> eternity for technology."
>
> Claudia Bourne Farrell, an FTC spokeswoman, said the new hearings would
> probably include issues such as spyware, spam, radio frequency
> identification - which tracks goods through a computer chip embedded in a
> tag - and identity theft.
>
> Todd Davis, chief executive officer of LifeLock Inc., a Chandler,
> Ariz.-based identity theft prevention company, plans to attend the hearings.
> He said the government had some catching up to do. "The thieves have
> advanced with the technology and we have not," Davis said.
>
> Majoras said the hearings would take place sometime this fall, and would
> include business, technology, academic and law enforcement experts.
>
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> FTC:
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> arings/18025091/SIG=10koh2aou/*http://www.ftc.gov> http://www.ftc.gov
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