The House Privacy Working Group will hear briefings Wednesday...
The House Privacy Working Group will hear briefings Wednesday on data collection practices from consumer privacy advocates and a technology policy expert, said two of the people briefing the group. Center for Digital Democracy Executive Director Jeff Chester said in…
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an email he will discuss “contemporary data profiling practices and how a individual is tracked and targeted.” Consumer Federation of America Director of Consumer Protection Susan Grant will also meet with the task force, Chester said. Adam Thierer, a senior research fellow with the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, will also take part in the meeting. Thierer is “going to talk about the benefits of data collection for the information economy and the provision of digital services,” he said in an email. Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., chair the task force, which was formed in early August and has met with 10 companies that collect and study user data (CD Oct 3 p10).