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WHAT:

Public Workshop, "Monitoring Software on Your PC: Spyware, Adware, and Other Software."

 

WHO:

Howard Beales
Director
FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection

 

WHEN:

Monday, April 19, 2004

9:00: Opening Remarks

9:15 - 10:15: Panel: Defining, Understanding and Disseminating Spyware

10:45 - 11:45: Panel: Security Risks and PC Functionality

11:45 - 12:45: Panel: Privacy Risks

1:00 - 2:30: Lunch
There will be a brown-bag press availability in room 3100. Panelists, including Brian Arbogast (Microsoft), J. Trevor Hughes (Network Advertising Initiative), Chris Kelly (Spoke Software), Fran Maier (TRUSTe), Andrew McLaughlin (Google), Jules Polonetsky (AmericaOnline), John Schwarz, (Symantec) and others will take reporters’ questions.

2:30 - 3:30: Panel: Industry Responses to Spyware - Industry Best Practices and Working with the Government

3:45 - 4:45: Panel: Technological Responses to Spyware

4:45 - 5:45: Panel: Government Responses to Spyware - Law Enforcement, Consumer Education and Coordinating with Industry

5:45 - 6:00: Closing Remarks

 

WHERE:

Federal Trade Commission Satellite Conference Center
601 New Jersey Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001

 

Reporters unable to attend the conference can listen to presentations by calling:
800-955-9331
Access Number: 23354988, Chairperson: Bruce Jennings. Call-in lines are for press only.

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