What's Ahead This Week?
The competition and consumer privacy implications of the burgeoning Internet advertising industry will be the focus of dueling hearings Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee and its counterpart: the House Judiciary Antitrust Task Force. The Senate Commerce Committee examined the issue last week, hearing officials from the FTC as well as Internet giants Google and Microsoft.
The latest hearings come in the wake of a recently announced advertising partnership between rivals Google and Yahoo. Some lawmakers have expressed concerns that the pairing would affect the collection, storage and use of data relating to an individual's online activity. Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang and other executives from Yahoo and Google have been meeting with legislators and congressional staffers in an attempt to calm fears and answer questions.
Meanwhile, the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee Thursday will examine what high-speed Internet providers know about their subscribers' Web use at a hearing on an online content analysis technique known as "deep-packet inspection" -- which involves the copying and analysis of customers' Web surfing habits. Critics have suggested that such tactics might run afoul of federal and state wiretap laws.
Read more about the week ahead at CongressDaily's TechCentral.
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