Minutes of ALSB Technology Section

Annual Conference, Nashville Tenn.

August 14, 2003

The meeting, which was held in conjunction with the Marketing Section, was called to order at 12:15.

Lynda Oswald introduced herself and Bob Bennett as candidates for secretary/treas. of ALSB and encouraged everyone to attend the business meeting.

Program

Jody Blanke introduced the speaker: Chris Hoofnagle, Deputy Counsel for EPIC in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Hoofnagle described EPIC as an organization concerned with privacy, civil liberties and particularly now, The Patriot Act in the online environment, open government and FOIA.

His area of expertise is Consumer Financial Services.

He said that EPIC has a summer internship program for law and graduate students. For more info email him or visit the EPIC website.

Mr. Hoofnagle’s talk addressed recent developments in the past year:

Congress’s attention to the FCRA

FTC “Do Not Call” list

FTC American student list

Spam

Looking ahead, Mr. Hoofnagle identified the following issues:

Affiliate Sharing

New Technologies for digital rights management

Existing Business relationships

Customer management (CRM customer blacklist)

            Use of SSN on college campuses.

            The Marketing Section members left at the conclusion of the talk at 1:20.

            New Business

            The following slate of officers for the 2003-2004 year was presented:

Jody Blanke - Chair

Kurt Saunders - Vice Chair

Ronnie Cohen - Secretary

Motion to approve the slate was made by Robert Thompson and seconded by Mark Conrad and was unanimously approved by the members.

It was suggested that the section consider sponsoring a panel on teaching web courses, and other issues of pedagogy related to technology.

Adjourned

Submitted by Ronnie Cohen