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Andrew Pinder, was appointed as Prime Minister Tony Blair's e-Envoy on January 31, 2001 following three months as acting e-Envoy. Reporting directly to the Prime Minister and working alongside relevant Ministers from both Cabinet Office and the Department for Trade and Industry, he heads the Government's UK online strategy. Previously Andrew was Director of IT at the UK Inland Revenue. Following this he became Director of Operations and Technology at Prudential Corporation, before joining Citibank investment bank as head of European Operations and Technology. During his time at Citibank, Andrew worked in New York, continental Europe and Dublin.
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Howard Beales, is the Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Appointed by FTC Chairman Tim Muris in June 2001, Mr. Beales has experience in both academia and government. A prolific writer and lecturer, Mr. Beales began his career at the FTC in 1977 as an economist specializing in consumer protection problems. He was named as Assistant to the Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, the first economist to hold that position, in 1981, and served as Associate Director for Policy and Evaluation in the Bureau from 1983 to 1987. Mr. Beales left the FTC in 1987 for a year-long stint at the Office of Management and Budget. An Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at George Washington University from 1988 until his recent appointment, he has published numerous scholarly articles on advertising and other aspects of consumer protection regulation.
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Charles "Chuck" Curran, Charles Curran serves as Assistant General Counsel with America Online, Inc. in Dulles, Virginia. Since joining AOL
in 1997, he has supervised AOL’s civil litigation efforts against spammers, which to date have involved twenty lawsuits and over one hundred corporate and individual defendants. He handles AOL’s legislative initiatives to combat spam at the federal and state level, as well as the development of AOL’s anti-spam and other email policies. He is also responsible for AOL’s compliance in online privacy and security-related matters. Prior to joining AOL, Mr. Curran was a trial
attorney with the Torts Branch of the United States Department of Justice, Civil Division. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Columbia University School of Law.
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Are you looking to enhance your love life? Searching for a lower mortgage? Does your in-box look something like this?
Spammers hope the answer to all these questions is yes. Unsolicited bulk commercial E-mail is the bane of many an in-box. Estimates on the percentage of all e-mail that is spam range from 40% to 60%. Spam's cost to American companies is estimated in the billions each year. As spam proliferates, so does consumer frustration.
Policymakers have taken notice. In the 105th Congress, zero bills were introduced that dealt with controlling spam; there were two in the 106th Congress; four in the 107th; and eleven in the current session, the 108th.
However, like the Internet over which it travels, spam is an international phenomenon. In many cases spam may originate or pass through computers in foreign countries. Therefore, no U.S. legislation can offer a full solution - international cooperation will be an essential component of any serious effort to tackle this problem.
The Forum on October 14th brought together a distinguished panel of experts from both sides of the Atlantic to take your questions and discuss the challenge of controlling spam internationally.
