Online Profiling: A Report to Congress

By Pitofsky, Robert

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Title:	Online Profiling: A Report to Congress
Author:	Pitofsky, Robert
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Language:	English
Subject:	Trade, Import and export controls, Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)
Collections:	Economics Publications Collection, Federal Trade Commission
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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I. INTRODUCTION: On November 8, 1999, the Federal Trade Commission (hereinafter ?FTC? or ?Commission?) and the United States Department of Commerce jointly sponsored a Public Workshop on Online Profiling. The goals of the Workshop were to educate government officials and the public about online profiling and its implications for consumer privacy, and to examine efforts of the profiling industry to implement fair information practices. The Commission also sought public comment on any issues of fact, law or policy that might inform its consideration of the practice of online profiling.3 In keeping with its longstanding support of industry self-regulation, the Commission has encouraged the network advertising industry in its efforts to craft an industry-wide program. The industry has responded with working drafts of self-regulatory principles for our consideration. In examining the practice of online profiling, as well as our work in online privacy, we nonetheless recognize there are real challenges to creating an effective self-regulatory regime for this complex and dynamic industry, and this process is not yet complete.