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July 21, 2009
July 24th Event: Stearns to deliver remarks
July 24th Event: Information and Privacy: What are the Tradeoffs?
Rep. Cliff Stearns to Deliver Remarks
| For Immediate Release | Contact: Ashley Creel |
Date: Friday, July 24, 2009
Time: 12 Noon - 2:00 PM
Location: Rayburn House Office Building, B369
Representative Cliff Stearns (R-Fl) will deliver opening remarks at TPI's July 24th event on Information and Privacy: What are the Tradeoffs? Stearns, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, has been in a leader on online privacy issues for many years.
Online advertising uses customer information to target messages to consumers' interests. The resulting advertising revenues support an array of innovative new online services, which consumers can often use for free. But as the use of information online has increased, so have concerns about privacy. More privacy, however, would mean less information, less valuable advertising, and thus fewer resources available for producing new low-priced services. It is this tradeoff that Congress needs to take into account as it considers new privacy legislation. TPI has assembled a group of experts to discuss how policy makers should address the tradeoffs inherent in privacy policy.
| 12 Noon | Registration and Buffet Lunch |
| 12:20 PM | Introductory Remarks |
| 12:40 PM | Panel Discussion |
| 2:00 PM | Adjournment |
To Register: Please use the online form for Information and Privacy: What are the Tradeoffs?, contact Ashley Creel at 202-828-4405 or events@techpolicyinstitute.org to register.
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- Google-AdMob: A Bad Precedent, by Thomas M. Lenard, April 27, 2010
- In Defense of Data: Information and the Costs of Privacy, Policy & Internet Journal, by Thomas M. Lenard and Paul H. Rubin, April 16, 2010