video & slides from Hill Briefing on Online Privacy Policy

Last week, I spoke to a group of Capitol Hill staffers about the current debate over online privacy policy. The topic is red-hot right now with 6 major bills pending and plenty of international and state-based activity percolating. I offered the staffers an overview of these issues as well as an alternative vision for how we might handle privacy concerns going forward.

I have embedded the video of my briefing below and it can also be found on the Mercatus website here. And the slide deck I used that day can also be found down below or over on Scribd here.

Privacy & the Internet

Related Reading:

Adam Thierer, Filing to Federal Trade Commission in 'Do Not Track' Proceeding, February 18, 2011.
Adam Thierer, "Birth of the 'Privacy Tax,'" Forbes, April 4, 2011.
Adam Thierer, "Online Privacy Regulation: Likely More Complicated (And Costly) Than Imagined," Mercatus on Policy, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, December 6, 2010 .
Adam Thierer, "Erasing Our Past on the Internet," Forbes, April 17, 2011.
Adam Thierer, "Unappreciated Benefits of Advertising and Commercial Speech," Mercatus on Point 86, Mercatus Center, January 2011.
Berin Szoka and Adam Thierer, "COPPA 2.0: The New Battle over Privacy, Age Verification, Online Safety & Free Speech," Progress on Point 16, no.11, The Progress & Freedom Foundation,  May 21, 2009.