FC: Doubleclick exec takes a top post at Commerce Department

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45798,00.html

   A DoubleClick executive has taken a top post at the Department of
   Commerce.

   Nuala O'Connor, DoubleClick's vice president for data protection and
   chief privacy officer, will start Aug. 13 as Commerce's deputy
   director of the Office of Policy and Strategic Planning.

   Long the target of lawsuits and public outcry -- even earning an
   infamous "Big Brother" award from Privacy International --
   DoubleClick's demographic profiling database targets advertisments to
   Web users based on their Internet habits.

   "I will be assisting Don Trigg, the office's director, in advising
   commerce secretary Donald Evans on an array of policy issues,"
   O'Connor wrote in an e-mail to friends this week. "As a result, my
   last day at DoubleClick will be [Friday]."

   Left-leaning privacy groups will certainly howl about this latest
   example of the Bush administration selling out to corporations.
   However, those with long-term memory cells will remember that
   President Clinton filled his administration with former liberal
   nonprofit group execs.




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