FC: PFF's Jeff Eisenach on FTC, privacy, and legislation

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Background:
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02158.html
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02157.html

Also note William Safire, a proponent of restricting government 
surveillance and strictly regulating corporate data collection, has a piece 
in the NYT on this topic. He complains that Minority Leader Gephardt is not 
regulatory enough. The column, no registration required, is here:
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/opinion/columns/020461.htm

-Declan
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From: Jeff Eisenach <jeisenach () pff org>
To: "'declan () well com'" <declan () well com>
Cc: Francis Rose <frose () pff org>, Tom Lenard <tlenard () pff org>,
        "'prubin () emory edu'" <prubin () emory edu>
Subject: RE: More on FTC commissioners and the odds of new privacy laws
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:58:56 -0400

I think your surmise is generally correct, though what I would really expect
is a greater focus on enforcement over rulemaking, plus an emphasis on
identifying and fixing real problems as opposed to imagined ones.

Paul Rubin -- who worked with Muris at the FTC during the 1980s -- has just
finished a major study for us on this topic.  His general conclusions are
summarized in testimony delivered on our behalf earlier this year.  See:

http://www.pff.org/pr/pr030101_RubinVolokhtestimony.htm (includes link to
full testimony).

See also this paper by Orson, which we published earlier this year.

http://www.pff.org/POP_8.4.htm as well as his remarks as part of a seminar
we did on the Hill recently, which is linked at

http://www.pff.org/pr/pr050801PrivacySeminar.htm

You might also note that Tim Muris was an Adjunct Fellow here until his
appointment to the FTC.  See:

http://www.pff.org/pr/pr032801_MuristoFTC.htm





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