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October 9, 2012
June 2012 Privacy Coalition Meeting
Our guest speaker was Maneesha Mithal, FTC Associate Director of the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Bureau of Consumer Protection Ed Felten FTC Technology Director (by phone) to discuss the agency's work on Do-Not-Track. We also had a briefing from Jeff Chester, President of Center for Digital Democracy, Lee Tien with EFF and John Simpson with Consumer Watchdog on the work of the W3C on Do-Not-Track. David Bruggeman, Senior Public Policy Analyst with the Association for Computing Machinery provided an update on the NTIA's First Privacy Multi-Stakeholder Meeting. The Coalition also heard from Nicole M. Austin-Hillery, Director and Counsel for the Washington Office The Brennan Center for Justice New York University School of Law on the status of Strict Voter ID and Election Protection efforts. There were updates from Robert Ellis Smith, Publisher of Privacy Journal on Rhode Island Senate bill 2386 on the SSN, Credit Bureau and ID Theft bill's passage, and Sharon Bradford Franklin, Senior Counsel, The Constitution Project on the status of Senate confirmation of the Chair for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Protection Board. The members of the Board have been confirmed, but the Chair is the only full time Board member and is essential to the Board becoming operational. The meeting wrapped up with a presentation by John Villasenor visiting the Brookings Institution and a faculty member at UCLA on the topic of data storage trends and Ubiquitous Surveillance.
Posted by EPIC at October 9, 2012 2:09 PM