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2000 CIS H 521119
TITLE:
Privacy and Electronic Communications
CIS-NO:
2000-H521-119
SOURCE: Committee on the Judiciary. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: May 18, 2000
LENGTH:
iii+70 p.+errata.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1020-A; 1020-B
SUDOC: Y4.J89/1:106/87
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 87. Hearing before the Subcom on Courts and
Intellectual Property to review Federal and private sector efforts to protect
the privacy of personal information communicated over the
Internet.
Supplementary material (p. 67-70) includes a witness's
written replies to Subcom questions.
CONTENT-NOTATION:
Internet privacy protection efforts
DESCRIPTORS:
INTERNET;
RIGHT OF PRIVACY; COMPUTER AND TELECOMMUNICATION SECURITY;
CONSUMERS; TELECOMMUNICATION REGULATION; INFORMATION SERVICES
AND SYSTEMS
00-H521-119 TESTIMONY NO: 1 May 18, 2000
p. 7-28
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
PINCUS, ANDREW J. (General Counsel, Department of
Commerce)
BERNSTEIN, JODIE (Director, Bureau of Consumer
Protection, FTC)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Summary of Administration efforts in cooperation with the
private sector to protect the privacy of personal information
communicated over the Internet; review of FTC initiatives to protect online
privacy, including protection of children's online
privacy.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Internet privacy protection efforts
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
FEDERAL TRADE
COMMISSION; DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE; CHILDREN
00-H521-119 TESTIMONY NO: 2 May 18, 2000 p. 29-65
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
BRUENING, PAULA J. (Director, Compliance and Policy,
TRUSTe)
SZAFRAN, MARC (General Counsel, Entertainment
Software Ratings Board (ESRB))
MULLIGAN, DEIRDRE K. (Staff
Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology)
ZUCK,
JONATHAN (President, Association for Competitive Technology)
REIDENBERG, JOEL R. (Professor, Law, Fordham University
School of Law)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Description of various Internet privacy
seal programs operated by nonprofit organizations, including ESRB
Privacy Online program; views on methods of protecting Internet
privacy; lack of citizen data privacy, with
recommendations.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Internet
privacy protection efforts
TESTIMONY
DESCRIPTORS:
TRUSTE; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001 
