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Copyright © 1999, Congressional Information
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99 CIS H 27180
TITLE: Electronic
Commerce: The Current Status of Privacy Protections for Online
Consumers
CIS-NO: 99-H271-80
SOURCE: Committee on Commerce.
House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: July 13, 1999
LENGTH:
iii+127 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-1
ITEM-NO: 1019-A-01; 1019-B-01
SUDOC: Y4.C73/8:106-39
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-39. Hearing before the Subcom on
Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection to review electronic commerce
privacy issues resulting from increased collection and
dissemination of computerized financial information for
Internet transactions. Also assesses the status of online industry
self-regulation and assesses the need for Federal regulation of the online
industry.
Supplementary material (p. 125-127) includes a
submitted statement.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Electronic
commerce privacy issues review
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON
TELECOMMUNICATIONS, TRADE, AND CONSUMER PROTECTION. HOUSE; RIGHT OF
PRIVACY; COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATION SECURITY; CONSUMERS;
TELECOMMUNICATION REGULATION; FINANCE; INFORMATION SERVICES AND
SYSTEMS; INTERNET
99-H271-80 TESTIMONY NO: 1 July 13,
1999 p. 9-74
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
PITOFSKY, ROBERT (Chairman, FTC)
SWINDLE, ORSON G., III
ANTHONY,
SHEILA F.
THOMPSON, MOZELLE W. (all three Commissioners,
FTC)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Differing
views on need for Federal regulation of online industry; perspectives on
adequacy of industry self-regulation; elaboration on privacy
issues related to collection and dissemination of personal
information over the Internet.
INSERTION:
-- FTC, "Self-Regulation and Privacy
Online: A Report to Congress" July 1999 (p. 17-37).
CONTENT
NOTATION:
Electronic commerce privacy
issues review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
99-H271-80 TESTIMONY NO: 2 July 13, 1999 p. 75-125
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
LEWIN,
ROBERT (Executive Director, TRUSTe)
MULLIGAN, DEIRDRE K.
(Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology)
SINGLETON, SOLVEIG (Attorney, CATO Institute)
LUCAS, STEVEN (Senior Vice President, Industry Government
Relations, PrivaSeek)
CERASALE, GERALD (Senior Vice
President, Government Affairs, Direct Marketing Association)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Differing perspectives on
need for Federal regulation of online industry and the success of industry
self-regulation; importance of allowing the industry adequate opportunity to
increase protections of consumer privacy online.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Electronic commerce
privacy issues review
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
TRUSTE 
