The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development will be hosting a conference Dec. 8-10 in Washington to examine how to protect consumers on the Internet. Many of the issues that will be discussed at the conference were examined in a new OECD report that found electronic commerce would grow faster than it is now "if business and governments did more to tackle the growing challenges of protecting consumers' rights and privacy and fighting fraud," according to an OECD news release.

Speakers at the OECD's "Empowering E-consumers: strengthening consumer protection in the Internet economy" conference include OECD Secretary General Angel Gurría and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke as well as representatives from the Consumer Federation of America, Facebook, Google, Intel and Microsoft. It will take place at the FTC's conference center.