Speeches/Articles by

Mozelle W. Thompson, Commissioner

• Statement
  Concerning my resignation as Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (August 11, 2004)
  
• Statement
  Concerning the Staff Report “The Petroleum Industry: Mergers, Structural Change, and Antitrust Enforcement” (August 2004)
  
• Statement
  Concerning the FTC's Merger Enforcement Actions in the Oil Industry (June 2, 2004)
  
• Statement
  Before the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce
  for Testimony on Spyware, April 29, 2004
  
• Prepared Concluding Remarks
  For the Conference “Ideas into Action: Implementing Reform of the Patent System” Bancroft Hotel, Berkeley, California, April 16, 2004 [PDF 17K]
  
• Testimony
  Given at a Full Committee Hearing: Spam (Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail) , Wednesday, May 21 2003 - SR-253
  
• US/EU Safe Harbor Agreement: What It Is and What It Says About the Future of Cross Border Data Protection
  Reprinted from Privacy Regulation, Spring 2003, a publication of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law
  

• Harvard Business Review
  HBR Case Study and Commentary, "And Now, a Word from Our Sponsors" [PDF 852 K] (October 2003 )
  
• Growth Expectations for a Global Marketplace that is Mindful of Individuals
  Before the Italian Data Protection Authority International Conference, "Privacy, Cost to Resource," Rome Italy, December 6, 2002.
  
• Interview with FTC Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson [PDF 84KB]
  from the Spring 2002 issue of Antitrust magazine
  
• Policing the IP-Competition Frontier
  Interview: Mozelle W Thompson, Federal Trade Commission. Sam Mamudi asked Thompson about his role. From the July/August 2002 issue of Managing Intellectual Property magazine
  
• Statement Concerning the March 5, 2002 Clearance Agreement Between the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission
  
• Speech Commencing the West Coast Sessions of the FTC/DOJ Intellectual Property Hearings Economic Perspectives on Intellectual Property, Competition, and Innovation, February 25, 2002
  
• Online Privacy Legislation Can Help Restore Consumer Confidence After Sept. 11
  Article published in San Francisco Chronicle February 3, 2002
  
• Statement Concerning the Abandoned Memorandum of Agreement Between The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice Concerning Clearance Procedures for Investigations, January 2002
  
• One World, One Privacy
  before the 23d International Conference of Data Protection Commissioners, Paris, La Sorbonne, 26 September 2001
  
• Opinion of the Commission
  In the Matter of Trans Union Corporation, March 1, 2000
  
• Statement
  The Commission's May 2000 Report to Congress on Online Privacy , May 22, 2000
  
• U.S. Implementation of the OECD E-Commerce Guidelines
  before the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, February 12, 2000
  
• Statement
  before The Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives, July 28, 1999
  
• Address
  before the Association for Computing Machinery "Computers, Freedom + Privacy 1999" Conference April 7, 1999
  
• Presentation
  before the International Conference on Consumer Policy, sponsored by the Japanese Economic Planning Agency March 11, 1999
  
• Statement
  before International Electronics Manufacturers and Consumers of America, Workshop on International Antitrust Policy, Washington, DC, February 10, 1999
  
• Solutions for Data Protection and Global Trade
  before the EU Committee of AMCHAM, Brussels, Belgium, December 3, 1998
  
• Managing the Privacy Revolution '98
  before the Privacy & American Business Conference, December 1, 1998
  
• Competition and Consumer Protection Issues in the Digital Economy
  Luncheon Address to Wireless Communications Association, July 8, 1998
  
• Prepared Statement
  "Obtaining Confidential Financial Information by Pretexting", before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, United State of Representatives, Washington, D.C., July 28, 1998