3/30. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an administrative complaint [8 pages in PDF] against Google alleging that it violated FTC Act, and the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework, in connection with the initial launch of its Buzz social networking service.

The FTC and Google simultaneously entered into an Agreement Containing Consent Order [9 pages in PDF] which mandates a comprehensive privacy program for Google, and other things. However, it imposes no fine or other payment.

In addition, Google admits no wrongdoing, no violation of law, and no facts, except with respect to the jurisdiction of the FTC.

The FTC has a long history of brining enforcement actions under the FTC Act when web site operators publish privacy policies, and then violate those privacy policies. However, this action against Google is the first in which the FTC has charged violation of the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework for such conduct.

Neither the complaint, agreement, nor Analysis of Proposed Consent Order to Aid Public Comment Section identify the section of the FTC Act alleged to have been violated. However, in prior similar actions the FTC has cited Section 5 of the FTC Act, which is codified at 15 U.S.C. § 45. It merely provides that "Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful".

Jonathan Leibowitz (at right), Chairman of the FTC, stated in a release that "When companies make privacy pledges, they need to honor them".

The FTC stated that "Although Google led Gmail users to believe that they could choose whether or not they wanted to join the network, the options for declining or leaving the social network were ineffective. For users who joined the Buzz network, the controls for limiting the sharing of their personal information were confusing and difficult to find, the agency alleged."

The complaint alleges that "Google Buzz is a platform that allows users to share updates, comments, photos, videos, and other information through posts or ``buzzes´´ made either publicly or privately to individuals or groups of users. Google used the information of consumers who signed up for Gmail, including first and last name and email contacts, to populate the social network. Without prior notice or the opportunity to consent, Gmail users were, in many instances, automatically set up with ``followers´´ (people following the user). In addition, after enrolling in Buzz, Gmail users were automatically set up to ``follow´´ other users." (Parentheses and internal quotations in original.)

It continues that "The setup process for Gmail users who enrolled in Buzz did not adequately communicate that certain previously private information would be shared publicly by default. Further, the controls that would allow the user to change the defaults were confusing and difficult to find." Also, "Certain personal information of Gmail users was shared without consumers’ permission through the Google Buzz social network."

Google launched Buzz on February 9, 2010. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a complaint with the FTC against Google on February 16, 2010, and an amended complaint on March 2, 2010.

Google's Alma Whitten stated in a release on March 30 that "The launch of Google Buzz fell short of our usual standards for transparency and user control -- letting our users and Google down. While we worked quickly to make improvements, regulators -- including the U.S. Federal Trade Commission -- unsurprisingly wanted more detail about what went wrong and how we could prevent it from happening again. Today, we’ve reached an agreement with the FTC to address their concerns."

Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV) stated in a release that "I will continue to take an aggressive stance to make sure consumers have adequate control over their personal information. Google was just plain wrong when it opted people into Buzz without their consent. This should be a wake-up call for online businesses -- both large and small -- of the need to be clear and honest about how the personal information of consumers is collected and used."

Berin Szoka, head of the Tech Freedom, stated in a release that "For years, many privacy advocates have insisted that only stringent new regulations can protect consumer privacy online. But todays settlement should remind us that the FTC already has sweeping powers to punish unfair or deceptive trade practices. The FTC can, and should, use its existing enforcement powers to build a common law of privacy focused on real problems, rather than phantom concerns. Such an evolving body of law is much more likely to keep up with technological change than legislation or prophylactic regulation would be, and is less likely to fall prey to regulatory capture by incumbents."

Leslie Harris, head of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), stated in a release that "The terms of this agreement are strong medicine for Google and will have a far-reaching effect on how industry develops and implements new technologies and services that make personal information public".

"We expect industry to quickly adopt the new requirement for opt-in consent before launching any new service that will publicly disclose personal information".She added that "This settlement sends the message that companies not only have to keep the promises they make to consumers, they must give users control over any technologies that make their information public".

Google is represented in this matter by in house counsel and Albert Gidari of the law firm of Perkins Coie.

3/30. The House Appropriations Committee's (HAC) Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government held a hearing on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) FY 2012 budget request.

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski wrote in his prepared testimony that the FCC FY 2012 budget request is $354,181,000. He outlined the ongoing work of the FCC, and elaborated on some of the FCC's programs and proceedings.

He wrote that "The FCC's FY12 budget reflects a fiscally responsible effort to continue necessary programs without undercutting the Commission’s core missions in a way that would have a counterproductive effect. This past year, the Commission has identified workplace efficiencies and successfully initiated modernization with available resources, while simultaneously implementing the National Broadband Plan and accomplishing a range of other strategic goals. The FY12 funds will provide the FCC with the resources necessary to complete and finalize programs initiated in past years, and those essential to keep the Commission responsive to changes in technology. The funds will ensure that the Commission is capable of performing the tasks mandated by Congress in an effective and efficient manner."

3/30. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has received communications recently regarding its AllVid technology mandates proposal.

The FCC made its proposal in its March 15, 2010 staff report [376 pages in PDF] titled "A National Broadband Plan for Our Future", at Recommendation 4.12, pages 51-52, and in its Notice of Inquiry (NOI) [28 pages in PDF], adopted and released on April 21, 2010. That NOI is FCC 10-60 in MB Docket No. 10-91, CS Docket No. 97-80, and PP Docket No. 00-67.

The FCC wrote in its NOI that "we wish to explore the potential for allowing any electronics manufacturer to offer smart video devices at retail that can be used with the services of any MVPD and without the need to coordinate or negotiate with MVPDs".

The FCC elaborated that "we introduce the concept of an adapter that could act either as a small ``setback´´ device for connection to a single smart video device or as a gateway allowing all consumer electronics devices in the home to access multichannel video programming services. Unlike the existing cable-centric CableCARD technology, this adapter could make possible the development and marketing of smart video devices that attach to any MVPD service anywhere in the United States, which could greatly enhance the incentives for manufacturers to enter the retail market."

Representatives of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Consumer Electronics Retailers Coalition (CERC), Google, Sony Electronics, Public Knowledge, and Media Access Project (MAP) met with FCC officials on January 24, 2011, to urge the FCC to conduct an AllVid rulemaking proceeding.

The CEA's counsel wrote in a January 26, 2011, notice of ex parte meeting that they stated that the "technologies are at hand to produce a standard, IP-based interface that serves the needs of consumers and the requirements for innovation and competition, without compromising the legitimate expectations of content distributors and providers".

It urged the FCC to mandate "technical standards that enable any device to present a unified user interface that offers choices of both MVPD and non-MVPD programs and services, and home network content. Existing FCC regulations allow each MVPD to offer such a unified interface if it wishes, but have not succeeded in allowing manufacturers and retailers of competitive devices to offer such a product on a national basis. The tools are at hand to address this lack through an AllVid rulemaking that references private sector industry standards."

The CEA wrote in a March 16, 2011, notice of ex parte meeting that it expressed its "support for the initiation of an AllVid rulemaking" and that a "standards-based national IP interface supported by MVPD-specific gateways, as set forth in the National Broadband Plan, is essential to assure a national retail market for competitive devices, and to better foster competition by enabling consumers to choose among MVPD services".

Cisco wrote in a February 2 notice of ex parte meeeting that it requested the FCC "to defer action on its AllVid proposal in light of marketplace developments", including its digital television architecture named Videoscape, "that accomplish the goals of AllVid and would be harmed if hardware-based, limited functionality AllVid rules were adopted".

The National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) wrote in a letter [9 pages in PDF] to the FCC on February 8 that the claims in the CEA's January 26 notice "are without merit".

The NCTA wrote that Sony and Google "seek a Commission mandate for CE device manufacturers to extract piece parts of a multichannel offering for each CE manufacturer to remake into a service of its own design, as though each MVPD were a wholesale distributor of all content in all windows for delivery to all devices on every platform".

"But rights holders make programming and other intellectual property available based on specific distribution paths, security, audiences, and advertising opportunities." The NCTA continued, "Sony/Google are not proposing ``may the best device win.´´ Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Sony, and Google make their content available only through a retail presence that they themselves define. They do not open their storerooms and databases for MVPDs to take as wholesale inventory and make a part of a ``unified offering´´ in a ``store´´ provided by an MVPD. Under the Sony/Google proposal, retail device manufacturers could convert MVPDs into wholesale suppliers, but MVPDs would have no comparable right to incorporate the content of other types of video distributors into their own offerings -- thereby locking traditional MVPDs out of a potential new video marketplace."

"In a nutshell", the NCTA asserted, "Sony/Google are asking the Commission to ignore copyright, patent, trademark, contract privity, licensing, and other legal rights and limitations that have been thoroughly documented in this proceeding. Section 629 is not a blank check that can override these legal limitations and the fundamental policy objectives (e.g., protection of intellectual property rights) underlying them." (Parentheses in original.)

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) wrote in a March 22 notice of ex parte meeting that "government intervention in a rapidly-developing device marketplace could have unintended consequences, particularly with respect to content protection".

It added that "mandating the integration of Internet content with video-on-demand is likely to elevate the profile of illegitimate sources of copyrighted content, or otherwise skew how consumers identify and choose which content to watch".

Also, on March 30, the Free State Foundation (FSF) released a paper [17 pages in PDF] titled "AllVid Proposal's First Amendment Problem: Exploring the FCC's Constitutionally Defective Device Regulation". The author is the FSF's Seth Cooper.

This paper argues that the FCC's AllVid proposal goes beyond the FCC's statutory authority of Section 629 of the Communications Act, which is codified at 47 U.S.C. § 549, and "would likely violate the First Amendment free speech rights of multichannel video programming distributors (MVPDs), such as Verizon Communications, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, Comcast, and DirecTV."

The FSF paper argues that "the FCC's proposed requirements regarding disaggregation of content and search menu and display, constitute compelled access mandates that are most likely prohibited by the First Amendment. Given conditions in today's dynamic video market, there is solid reason to believe that courts will not be as receptive to the FCC's AllVid proposal to regulate MVPDs and video navigation device functionality as they have previously been to earlier generations of regulation imposed on cable operators grounded in concerns over perceived cable monopolies. AllVid fails to advance any substantial -- let alone compelling -- governmental interest, and less onerous options are available to the Commission to achieve the objectives it claims that AllVid will further."

3/29. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil complaint [PDF] in the U.S. District Court (DMd) against Cheng Yi Liang and others alleging insider trading in violation of Section 10b of the Exchange Act, and Section 17a of the Securities Act, in connection with use of non-public government information to trade in securities.

The complaint alleges that he was an employee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) who used confidential information about drug approvals, prior to public disclosure, to trade in the securities of the companies that applied to the FDA for approval.

The complaint states that "Liang engaged in unlawful insider trading in advance of at least 27 different announcements concerning FDA decisions on drug applications involving 19 different publicly-traded companies. Liang purchased stock for a profit before nineteen positive announcements; short sold stock for a profit before six negative announcements; and sold stock to avoid losses before two negative announcements."

Daniel Hawke, Chief of the SEC's Market Abuse Unit, stated in an SEC release that "The insider trading laws apply to employees of the federal government just as they do to Wall Street traders, corporate insiders, or hedge fund executives. Many government agencies like the FDA routinely possess and generate confidential market-moving information. Federal employees who misappropriate such information to engage in insider trading risk exposing themselves to potential civil and criminal charges for violating the federal securities laws.”

This case is SEC v. Cheng Yi Liang, et al., U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Greenbelt Division, D.C. No. 8:11-cv-00819-RWT.

The House will meet at 10:00 AM for morning hour, and at 2:00 PM for legislative business. It will consider HR 658, the "FAA Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2011". See Rep. Cantor's schedule for week of March 28.

The Senate will meet at 9:30 AM for morning business.

10:00 AM. The Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) will hold an executive business meeting. The agenda again includes consideration of Goodwin Liu (to be a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit) and John McConnell (to be a Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island). Both face substantial opposition. The agenda also includes consideration Kevin Sharp (USDC/MDTenn), Roy Dalton (USDC/MDFl), Claire Cecchi (USDC/DNJ), Esther Salas (USDC/DNJ), Paul Oetken (USDC/SDNY), and Paul Engelmayer (USDC/SDNY). The agenda also includes consideration of S 410 [LOC | WW], the "Sunshine in the Courtroom Act". The SJC rarely follows its published agendas. The SJC will webcast this event. See, notice. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.

10:00 AM. The House Appropriations Committee's (HAC) Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies will hold a hearing on the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) FY 2012 budget request. The witness will be John Holdren, OSTP Director. See, HAC schedule for week of March 28. Location: Room H-309, Capitol Building.

10:00 AM. The House Appropriations Committee's (HAC) Subcommittee on Homeland Security will hold a closed hearing on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) cyber security and infrastructure protection FY 2012 budget request. The witnesses will be Rand Beers (Under Secretary of the National Protection & Programs Directorate) and Phil Reitinger (Deputy Under Secretary of National Protection & Programs Directorate). See, HAC schedule for week of March 28. Location: Room H-405, Capitol Building.

10:00 AM. The House Judiciary Committee's (HJC) Subcommittee on on Immigration Policy and Enforcement will hold a hearing titled "H-1B Visas: Designing a Program to Meet the Needs of the U.S. Economy and U.S. Workers". The witnesses will be Donald Neufeld (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services), Bo Cooper (Berry Appleman & Leiden), Ron Hira (Rochester Institute of Technology), and Bruce Morrison (Morrison Public Affairs Group). See, notice. Location: Room 2141, Rayburn Building.

10:00 AM. The Senate Finance Committee (SFC) will hold a hearing titled "APEC 2011: Breaking Down Barriers, Creating Economic Growth". The witnesses will be John Veroneau (Covington & Burling), Peter Scher (JPMorgan Chase), Bert Robins (SeaCast, Inc.), and Richard Hartvigsen (Nu Skin International). See, notice. Location: Room 215, Dirksen Building.

1:00 PM. The USTelecom will host a webcast panel discussion titled "Optical Network Edge". The speaker will be Kevin Morgan (Adtran). Free. See, notice.

2:00 PM. The House Foreign Affairs Committee's (HFAC) Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific will hold a hearing titled "Asia Overview: Protecting American Interests in China and Asia". See, notice. Location: Room 2200, Rayburn Building.

2:30 PM. The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) will hold a hearing on the FY 2012 budget request for the Library of Congress. See, notice. Location: Room 138, Dirksen Building.

Day two of a three day conference of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of Antitrust Law. See, conference web site. Prices vary. CLE credits. Location: JW Marriott Hotel.

Target date for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (OUSTR) to conclude its review of the operation, effectiveness, and implementation of and compliance with various telecommunications agreements, including the World Trade Organization (WTO) General Agreement on Trade in Services. See, notice in the Federal Register, November 18, 2010, Vol. 75, No. 222, at Pages 70770-70771.

Deadline to submit nominations to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the award of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation (NMTI). See, notice in the Federal Register, December 30, 2010, Vol. 75, No. 250, at Page 82378.

Deadline to submit comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Computer Security Division (CSD) regarding its draft SP 800-131 C [12 pages in PDF] titled "Transitions: Validating the Transition from FIPS 186-2 to FIPS 186-3".

Deadline to submit comments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Computer Security Division (CSD) regarding its draft SP 800-131 B [11 pages in PDF] titled "Transitions: Validation of Transitioning Cryptographic Algorithm and Key Lengths".

Deadline to submit comments to the Department of Commerce's (DOC) National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) in response to its Notice of Inquiry (NOI) regarding Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions. See, notice in the Federal Register, February 25, 2011, Vol. 76, No. 38, at Pages 10569-10571.

Deadline to submit comments to the Copyright Royalty Judges regarding the motion filed by the Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), SESAC, and Harry Fox Agency (HFA) for partial distribution of the digital audio recording technology (DART) musical works funds for 2005 through 2008. See, notice in the Federal Register, March 1, 2011, Vol. 76, No. 40, at Pages 11287-11288.

The House may meet at 9:00 AM for legislative business. See Rep. Cantor's schedule for week of March 28.

Supreme Court conference day (discussion of argued cases, and decision on cert petitions). Closed.

9:00 - 11:00 AM. The House Intelligence Committee (HIC) will hold a closed hearing titled "FY 2012 Budget Overview". Location: Room HVC-304, House Visitor Center.

10:00 AM. The House Judiciary Committee's (HJC) Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet will hold a hearing titled "Competition and Consolidation in Financial Markets". See, notice. Location: Room 2141, Rayburn Building.

10:30 AM. The House Commerce Committee's (HCC) Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will hold a hearing on HR __, a yet to be introduced bill regarding broadband spending under HR 1 (111th Congress) for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and Rural Utilities Service (RUS). See, notice. Location: Room 2322, Rayburn Building.

2:00 - 4:00 PM. The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure will meet, on site and by teleconference. See, notice in the Federal Register, March 16, 2011, Vol. 76, No. 51, at Page 14436. Location: NSF, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 1160, Arlington, VA.

Day three of a three day conference of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Section of Antitrust Law. See, conference web site. Prices vary. CLE credits. Location: JW Marriott Hotel.

Deadline to submit comments to the Department of Commerce (DOC) in response to its Notice and Request for Information regarding the USA's "innovative capacity and international competitiveness". See, original notice in the Federal Register, February 4, 2011, Vol. 76, No. 24, at Pages 6395-6397, and correction notice in the Federal Register, February 17, 2011, Vol. 76, No. 33, at Pages 9320.

12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM. The DC Bar Association will host an event titled "Demystifying Social Media -- What Every Lawyer Should Know". The speakers will be Tasha Coleman, Tom Foster, Laura Possessky, Michelle Thomas. See, notice. Free. For more information, contact Daniel Mills at 202-626-1312. Location: DC Bar Conference Center, 1101 K St., NW.

12:30 - 2:00 PM. The Federal Communications Bar Association's (FCBA) International Telecommunications Committee will host a brown bag lunch titled "Internet Ecosystem". The speakers will include Jack Nadler (Squire Sanders), Michael Kende (Analysys Mason USA), Paul Kouroupas (Global Crossing), Eric Loeb (AT&T), and Dennis Weller (Navigant Economics). For more information, contact Jennifer Ullman at jennifer at thejgroupplanning dot com. Location: Squire Sanders, Suite 500, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.

Deadline to submit reply comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding extending to June 30, 2012, the current freeze of jurisdictional separations category relationships and cost allocation factors. This NPRM is FCC 11-34 in CC Docket No. 80-286. The FCC adopted and released it on March 1, 2011. See, Federal Register, March 14, 2011, Vol. 76, No. 49, at Pages 13576-13579.

2:30 PM. The Senate Commerce Committee (SCC) will hold a hearing titled "Closing the Digital Divide: Connecting Native Nations and Communities to the 21st Century". See, notice. Location: Room 253, Russell Building.

8:30 AM - 4:30 PM. Day one of a two day meeting of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Advisory Committee on the Electronic Records Archives (ACERA). See, notice in the Federal Register, March 21, 2011, Vol. 76, No. 54, at Page 15349. Location: 700 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.

9:30 AM. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold an event titled "workshop" regarding its February 8, 2011, NPRM regarding its intercarrier compensation system and universal service fund. See also, NPRM [289 pages in PDF] adopted on February 8, 2011, and released on February 9, 2011. It is FCC 11-13 in WC Docket No. 10-90, GN Docket No. 09-51, WC Docket No. 07-135, WC Docket No. 05-337, CC Docket No. 01-92, CC Docket No. 96-45, and WC Docket No. 03-109. See, notice. Location: FCC, Commission Meeting Room.

10:00 AM. The Senate Judiciary Committee (SJC) will hold a hearing titled "The Electronic Communications Privacy Act: Government Perspectives on Protecting Privacy in the Digital Age". The witnesses will be Cameron Kerry (General Counsel, Department of Commerce) and James Baker (Associate Deputy Attorney General). The SJC will webcast this hearing. See, notice. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.

10:45 AM. The House Judiciary Committee's (HJC) Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition and the Internet will hold a hearing titled "Promoting Investment and Protecting Commerce Online: Legitimate Sites v. Parasites, Part II". See, notice. Location: Room 2141, Rayburn Building.

1:00 - 4:30 PM. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) will host a half day conference titled "Rare Earth Crisis?". See, notice. This event is free and open to the public. Location: AEI, 12th floor, 1150 17th St., NW.

6:00 - 8:00 PM. The Federal Communications Bar Association (FCBA) will host an event titled "Congressional Reception". See, notice and registration form [PDF]. Prices vary. The FCBA excludes reporters from some of its events. Location: Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave., NW.

Day one of a four day conference hosted by the the American Bar Association (ABA) titled "26th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference". See, notice. Location: Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA.

Day one of a two day event hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) titled "Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop III". See, notice in the Federal Register, March 15, 2011, Vol. 76, No. 50, at Pages 13984-13985. Location: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD.

9:00 AM - 12:00 NOON. Day two of a two day meeting of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Advisory Committee on the Electronic Records Archives (ACERA). See, notice in the Federal Register, March 21, 2011, Vol. 76, No. 54, at Page 15349. Location: 700 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.

10:30 AM. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may hold an event titled "open meeting". Location: FCC, Commission Meeting Room, 445 12th St., SW.

4:00 PM. George Mason University (GMU) will host a lecture by Shane Greenstein (Northwestern University business school) titled "The Mythology of Networks and Other Lessons from the Commercial Internet". See, notice. Location: Room 120, Hazel Hall, GMU law school, Arlington, VA.

6:00 - 9:15 PM. The DC Bar Association will host an event titled "Preserving Intellectual Property Rights in Government Contracts: A Beginner’s Guide (Part 1)". The speakers will be David Bloch (Winston & Strawn), Richard Gray (Department of Defense, Office of General Counsel), John Lucas (Department of Energy), and James McEwen (Stein McEwen). See, notice. The price to attend ranges from $89 to $129. CLE credits. For more information, call 202-626-3488. Location: DC Bar Conference Center, 1101 K St., NW.

Day two of a four day conference hosted by the the American Bar Association (ABA) titled "26th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference". See, notice. Location: Crystal Gateway Marriott, Arlington, VA.

Deadline to submit comments to be considered by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in advance of its April 28, 2011, event titled "Public Workshop: Debt Collection 2.0: Protecting Consumers as Technologies Change". See, notice in the Federal Register, March 15, 2011, Vol. 76, No. 50, at Pages 14010-14014, and story titled "FTC Workshop to Address Use of Facebook and Other New Technologies for Debt Collection" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 2,204, March 15, 2011.

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