Interagency Public Workshop:Get Noticed: Effective Financial Privacy Notices


GET NOTICED: Effective Financial Privacy Notices
 

8:00 am Doors Open
9:00 am Welcome and Overview of the Workshop Agenda:
Chairman Timothy J. Muris, Federal Trade Commission
9:10 am Announcements: Julie Brof, Attorney, Division of Financial Practices, Federal Trade Commission
9:15 am The Challenges of Providing Effective Financial Privacy Notices:
The Industry Experience

Moderators:

  • Amy S. Friend, Assistant Chief Counsel, Office of the Comptroller of the
    Currency
  • Stephanie Martin, Assistant General Counsel, Board of Governors of the
    Federal Reserve System

Panelists:

  • Stephen Durkee, Vice President and Privacy Implementation Officer,
    Citigroup Inc.
  • Richard H. Harvey, Jr., Vice President and Chief Compliance & Privacy
    Officer, Chevy Chase Bank
  • Julia F. Johnson, Chief Privacy Officer, Bank One Corporation
  • Ellen L.S. Koplow, Senior Vice President and General Counsel,
    Ameritrade Holding Corporation
  • Paul D. Metrey, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Legal and Regulatory
    Group, National Automobile Dealers Association
  • Pauline C. Scalvino, Principal, Legal Department, The Vanguard Group
  • Stacy Suggs, Assistant Vice President of Compliance, Bank Independent
  • Robin K. Warren, Privacy Executive, Bank of America Corporation

Representatives of financial institutions will discuss the challenges they faced in developing their privacy notices. A 15-minute question-and-answer period from the workshop attendees will begin at 10:30.

10:45 am Break
11:00 am The Challenges of Providing Effective Financial Privacy Notices:
The Consumer and Academic Perspective

Moderators:

  • Toby Milgrom Levin, Senior Attorney, Division of Financial Practices,
    Federal Trade Commission
  • Mary Culnan, Slade Professor of Management and Information
    Technology, Bentley College

Panelists:

  • E. Joyce Gould, Health Care Project Director, Citizen Action of New York
  • Jim Harper, Editor, Privacilla.org
  • Chris Hoofnagle, Legislative Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information
    Center
  • David Krane, Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Public Affairs
    Research, Harris Interactive/Privacy Leadership Initiative
  • Ari Schwartz, Associate Director, Center for Democracy and Technology
  • Frances B. Smith, Executive Director, Consumer Alert
  • Frank Torres, Legislative Counsel, Consumers Union

Representatives of consumer and privacy groups and academics will provide their perspective on the challenges in providing effective notices. A 15-minute question-and-answer period from the workshop attendees will begin at 12:15.

Remarks: Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson, Federal Trade Commission

12:30 pm Lunch (in Reagan Building or nearby restaurants; check www.ftc.gov/glbworkshop for more information)
1:30 pm The View from Communications Experts

Moderators:

  • Penelope W. Saltzman, Senior Counsel, Office of Regulatory Policy,
    Division of Investment Management, Securities and Exchange
    Commission
  • William Lutz, Professor of English, Rutgers University in Camden, New
    Jersey

Panelists:

  • Deborah S. Bosley, Ph.D., Director of the University Writing Programs at
    the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Irene A. Etzkorn, Managing Director of Corporate Administration,
    Siegelgale, Inc.
  • Josiah Fisk, Writer and Principal, Firehouse Financial Communications
    LLC
  • Lynn Riddle, Creative Director and Principal, Firehouse Financial
    Communications LLC
  • Mark Hochhauser, Ph.D., Readability Consultant
  • Alan Levy, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Consumer Studies Team, Center for
    Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration

Communications experts will provide guidance in communicating complex information to consumers. They will discuss various tools that may assist financial institutions in crafting understandable privacy notices, including examples of "before" and "after" policy provisions based on mock notices. A 15-minute question-and-answer period from the workshop attendees will begin at 3:00.

3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm Industry Initiatives and Consumer Education Efforts

Moderators:

  • Nancy Yanofsky, Assistant Chief Counsel of the Division of Economic
    Analysis, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • John Fielding, Senior Counsel, National Association of Insurance
    Commissioners

Panelists:

  • Martin E. Abrams, Senior Policy Advisor and Executive Director, Center
    for Information Policy Leadership, Hunton & Williams
  • John C. Dugan, Partner, Covington & Burling, Outside Counsel for
    Financial Services Coordinating Council
  • Patricia Faley, Senior Vice President, Ethics and Consumer Affairs, The
    Direct Marketing Association, Inc.
  • Tena Friery, Research Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
  • Susan E. Henrichsen, Deputy Attorney General, Office of the California
    Attorney General
  • David Klaus, Executive Director, Privacy Leadership Initiative
  • Fran Maier, Executive Director, TRUSTe

Representatives from industry, consumer groups, and state government will describe their initiatives to provide effective privacy notices and develop consumer education campaigns. A 15-minute question-and-answer period from the workshop attendees will begin at 5:00.

5:15 pm Concluding remarks by J. Howard Beales III, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission
5:30 pm End