U.S. PIRG Consumer Blog: Google and Privacy: Monday Seminar at the Press Club

On Monday at 9am, an expert panel including U.S. PIRG's Amina Fazlullah and University of Pennsylvania professor Joe Turow, author of Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age, will hold a public seminar at the Washington DC, National Press Club on "Google, Online Advertising, and Privacy."

The expert panel event is intended to tee-up the pending FTC 2-day town hall (1-2 November) on online privacy. It will review recent developments with online privacy, including behavioral targeting, and the proposed merger of Google and Doubleclick. The panel will discuss the challenges to the merger and the various remedies that the Federal Trade Commission could impose to help safeguard Internet privacy and ensure competition.

PRESS ADVISORY

"Google, Online Advertising, and Privacy"
Press Club Briefing and Teleconference
Monday, September 17, 2007

Public Briefing - Session at Press Club
9 am - 10 am ET

An expert panel will review recent developments with online privacy, including behavioral targeting, and the proposed merger
of Google and Doubleclick. The panel will discuss the challenges to the merger and the various remedies that the Federal Trade
Commission could impose to help safeguard Internet privacy and ensure competition.

Participants:

Amina Fazlullah, Staff Attorney, USPIRG;

Lillie Coney, Associate Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC);

Melissa Ngo, Director, Identification and Surveillance Project, EPIC;

Professor Joseph Turow, Robert Lewis Shayon Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. Author of "Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age" (MIT Press, 2006);

Jeff Chester, Executive Director, Center for Digital Democracy. Author of Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy (The New Press, 2007

The National Press Club
First Amendment Room
529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor
Washington, DC