From: "Raul, Alan Charles" araul@Sidley.com
To: HQ.DCMAIL4(advisorycommittee)
Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2000 11:15 AM
Subject: Advisory Committee Nomination

I respectfully request consideration to be a member of the FTC's Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security. I have spoken at numerous Internet conferences, and serve as General Counsel of a new Internet privacy organization, "Protecting Our Children Online" (POCO). POCO has been established to help educate parents and children in using the Web. A copy of my bio is attached here.

<<Raul Bio.doc>>

I head the CyberLaw practice in Sidley & Austin's D.C. office, and have testified recently before Congress regarding the pending anti-Spam legislation. A copy of my testimony, together with a number of other recent articles, is attached below.

* Legislative Hearing, "Spamming: The E-Mail You Want To Can," Subcommittee on Telecommunications Trade & Consumer Protection, Prepared Statement of Alan Charles Raul, November 3, 1999, http://com-notes.house.gov/cchear/hearings106.nsf/a317d879d32c08c2852567
d300539946/76a8dc0ee1e072248525681e000bfb26?OpenDocument

* Fighting Fraud in Cyberspace: Protecting Online Consumers and Investors (Summary of the Conference Hosted by Sidley & Austin at the Harvard Club, New York City, on June 2, 1999) http://www.sidley.com/cyberlaw/features/fighting.htm

* U.S. Perspectives on Consumer Protection in the Global Electronic Marketplace http://www.sidley.com/cyberlaw/policy/ftcjuris.htm

* White House Watch: White House Creates Working Group on Unlawful Activities on the Internet http://www.sidley.com/cyberlaw/policy/whwatch.htm

Thank you for your consideration.

Alan Raul

Alan Charles Raul
http://www.sidley.com/cyberlaw
202-736-8477 (tel.)
202-736-8711 (fax)
araul@sidley.com (e-mail)
Sidley & Austin
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Washington, D.C. 20006