FC: Interview with FTC commissioner Orson Swindle on privacy, spam

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://news.com.com/2008-1082-956523.html?tag=politech

   Setting the rules for spam and Net privacyBy
   Declan McCullagh 
   September 4, 2002, 12:00 PM PT

   ASPEN, Colo.--Orson Swindle is an unusual breed of
   Washingtonian: a politician who doesn't trust other politicians much
   at all.
   
   Swindle, 65, is one of five commissioners at the Federal Trade
   Commission. The FTC's responsibilities involve policing the Internet
   for fraud and privacy violations; the agency recently compelled
   Microsoft to make changes to its Passport authentication system.
   
   Swindle believes the private sector typically is better at resolving
   online problems than are government bureaucrats. It's not a new
   argument: When the FTC voted 3-2 in May 2000 to ask Congress for more
   power to regulate Web sites, Swindle was one of the two dissenters.

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