Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz is arguably the most powerful person in our industry. I'm thrilled that he'll be joining us onstage for "ad:tech inspire" at the Javits Center in New York on November 8th. Mr. Leibowitz will give a short presentation and then sit down with a panel of industry experts, but I want to crowd source at least a FEW of the topics we'll kick around-- I'll also be interviewing him here at iMedia Connection.
The other ad:tech inspire panelists are Dave Morgan of Simulmedia, Grace Liau of Vivaki and Scott Meyer of Evidon.
We're working on the session description now and I'll share it soon, but in the meantime please respond in comments with the questions you think we should ask.
Ask him what first hand evidence he has that tracking behavior has brought harm to American citizens. Yes, the concept sounds "creepy" but the execution is harmless. Ask him what is new about data collection and why online collection of data bits is worse than the offline collection that has been going on for decades? Ask him if he really thinks Amercian expect any kind of online "privacy" at this point and if so why are they giving so much personally identifiable information to social media sites?