WPI professor to participate in Federal Trade Commission panel o...

Courtesy http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml  Wed, 12/02/2009 - 23:00

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Craig Wills, professor of computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), will participate in a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) panel on online behavioral advertising starting at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 7, at the FTC Conference Center in Washington, D.C.

He was selected because of his research that showed that more than half a billion social network users are at risk of having their personal information "leaked" to third-party sites that track web browsing habits.

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