<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default">Starts at Noon. This issue - ISP's right to datamine their customers - showed up earlier in the year at a couple of congressional hearings in the form of a turf war between the FTC and the FCC. Telcos are citing some ancient right to collect calling data, while the FTC considers it a consumer issue. It was Harold Feld, who is on the panel today who somewhat <a href="https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-knowledge-urges-fcc-to-issue-nprm-to-protect-consumer-privacy" style="font-size:small">set the thing in motion</a>, while Richard Bennett, also speaking, considers the whole thing <a href="http://hightechforum.org/fact-checking-privacy-nprm/" style="font-size:small">a massive overreach</a> given that all the edge providers do it anyway. Today's keynote comes from Jon Lebowitz, who, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Leibowitz" style="font-size:small">Wikipedia</a>, is "founding Co-Chair of the "21st Century Privacy Coalition," a coalition of telecommunications companies and trade associations focused on relaxing federal privacy laws."</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u>


        
        
        
        


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Where: Russell Senate Office Bldg, Washington DC<br>
When: Tuesday September 27 2016 Noon-1:30pm EDT (16:00-17:30 UTC)<br>
Webcast: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/privacy" target="_blank">https://livestream.com/<wbr>internetsociety/privacy</a><br>
Twitter: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(37,133,178)" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=CALinnovates" target="_blank">@CALinnovates</a></strong></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><strong>​​</strong></div><p></p></div>
                                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                        
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