PRESS ADVISORY

"Google, Online Advertising, and Privacy"

Press Club Briefing and Teleconference

Monday, September 17, 2007

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

1. 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)

2. Follow-up Press Briefing - Teleconference
12 pm - 1 pm ET

Please contact Jeff Chester for call-in information

CONTACT

Jeff Chester
Email: jeff@democraticmedia.org

REFERENCES

Google and Privacy
http://www.epic.org/privacy/ftc/google/

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
http://www.epic.org/

Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
http://www.democraticmedia.org
http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?cat=26

US PIRG
http://www.uspirg.org