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REMINDER/Junkbusters President Catlett speaks onPrivacy, Business, Online Advertising...

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REMINDER ... MAY 17TH (WED)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 8, 2000

Leading privacy advocate Jason Catlett will speak at several

events in New York in the next month concerning privacy, marketing,

online advertising and ecommerce.

-- On Wednesday May 17 at the e-business conference of the

investment banking firm Stephens Inc., Catlett will moderate a

panel on privacy at 12 noon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

Panelists include senior representatives from 24/7 Media Inc.

(TFSM), dash.com, Doubleclick Inc. (DCLK), Engage (ENGA),

Experian (GUNVF), Matchlogic (ATHM) and Privaseek. See:

http://www.stephens.com/research/conf_form5.asp Topics include

the privacy issues of online ad targeting.

-- On Wednesday May 10 at eFinancialWorld, Catlett will appear on

a panel on financial privacy at 10:30am at the New York Hilton

& Towers. See http://www.efinancialworld.com/ Topics include

the privacy regulations of the Financial Services

Modernization Act.

-- On Friday June 9 at Iconocast's WebAttack, Catlett will appear

on a panel on email marketing at 9:30am at Roselands. See:

http://www.iconocast.com/webattack Topics include best

practices for email marketers, and the status of an anti-junk

email bill before congress, HR 3113.

-- On Monday May 15 at 11am EST, Catlett will participate in a

conference call with privacy and consumer advocates to discuss

a report on privacy to be released that day. The report is

being written by an advisory committee appointed by the

Federal Trade Commission to examine the issues of on online

security and consumer's access to data about them. Details at

http://www.ftc.gov/acoas/ and http://junkbusters.com/news/ To

participate, call 918-222-7123, wait for tone, enter code 2350

followed by the pound sign.

About Catlett

Catlett is President and founder of Junkbusters Corp. Described by the Associated Press as a nationally known privacy advocate, Catlett is frequently quoted in the media as a critic of intrusive marketing practices. A computer scientist with a Ph.D. in data mining, Catlett is arguably the nation's leading expert on the interplay between technology, marketing and privacy.

About Junkbusters

Junkbusters Corp. is a privacy advocacy firm, based in Green Brook, NJ. Junkbusters's web site (http://www.junkbusters.com) is a leading consumer resource on the control of telemarketing calls, unwanted mail, email (spam), and commercial invasions of privacy. The company also publishes a popular free software product called the Internet Junkbuster Proxy (TM) that improves privacy during Web surfing, by managing cookies and removing banner ads.

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