Glenn Manishin is moderating this panel (standing).

Brock Morris, Center for Democracy & Technology. (far left in photo). When ever the government sees a new technology it decided when to reign it in.

Peter Corbett, CEO of iStrategyLabs (center of photo)- engage citizen innovation with an open data model.

Beau Phillips, Partner, CLS, (next to Glenn) thinks no one reads the online privacy TOS. We will probably end up see a new online privacy bill that will be tacked on to some piece of major legislation sometime this spring, yet few if any elected official will read the find print or even understand the law tjey will end up voting on.

Glenn said there is no actual rule preventing accidental disclosure of someone’s social security number.

Also Glenn pointed out that much of our privacy laws are based on Opt Out, not Opt In, as is the case in the rest of the world.

Weather your content is anon or not, there’s trademark and defamation lawsuits, and individual Bloggers don’t have the resources to fight, and would rather retract.

Law and Ligitation are used by for profit companies to create turmoil that ends up rasing prices for the consumer.

How about Obama’s Blackberry? We are going to see change from the bottom up.

FTC can now set up a process where comments on pending rules can be crowd sourced because technology is in place that was not 2 years.

A privacy law has been introduced which will probably pass this spring according to Beau Phillips (who has seen it but can’t comment on it’s specific contents) and it will most likely pass, in some form. But Duane Morris says it won’t be released for comments until it’s approved by a committee.

And that IS A PROBLEM as it’s typical, and how Washington has worked, that some get to see early versions of Bills, like this “privacy” bill, before the the rest of us can, and Duane thinks even Obama won’t be able to change this.

Also, when legislation is proposed, there’s Still no way to comment on each article of legislation.