UW Law School Professor Gerald Thain will be one of the U.S. representatives at the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), to be held March 10-13, 2007, at the European Parliament in Brussels.

TACD is an organization of European and U.S. consumer groups that, among other things, meet periodically with representatives of the two governments, seeking pro-consumer and uniform laws and regulations dealing with matters of interest to consumers.

Thain is a member of the Internet and Privacy working group, which is devoting particular attention this year to dealing with Internet spam and pfishing, pursuing greater privacy rights from Internet business, and crafting legislation to limit unauthorized use of RFID devices (microbe-sized chips that can be used to trace the activities of one possessing a device with it) without a consumer's knowledge.

Thain was also a guest speaker and responder to call-in questions on the Wisconsin Public Radio Ideas Network broadcast of February 20, when the topic was proposed federal legislation to give the Food & Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco. As a member of the Madison Rotary committee on ethics, he recently helped to put together a program involving 200 high school juniors in discussions of defining and applying ethics in life situations.

For more information about the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, visit http://tacd.org.

Submitted by on March 13, 2007

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