Quote of the day from Paperghost at VitalSecurity:
“Desktop advertising used to be a free-for-all,” said Christine Varney, a partner in Hogan & Hartson LLP’s Washington, D.C. office and a featured speaker at ad:tech San Francisco. “It’s not anymore. Thanks to the efforts of the Federal Trade Commission, the New York attorney general’s office, TRUSTe and, most recently, the reintroduction of federal anti-spyware legislation, those days are behind us. Simply put, there’s never been a better time for advertisers to venture into the desktop advertising arena.”
Market Wire Press Release:
Online Media Company to ‘Blanket’ Advertisers With Opportunities at Interactive Advertising Event
Ms. Varney is a former FTC Commissioner and currently head of the Internet practice group at Hogan & Hartson. She also serves on the Board of Directors of TRUSTe. Her clients have included eBay, Fox Interactive Media/MySpace, Zango, DoubleClick, Advertising.com, Netscape, and RealNetworks.
Zango’s attorney, former FTC Commissioner Christine Varney, said the company fully cooperated with the FTC investigation, providing the agency with than one million documents.
The complaint named the company and two of its principals, Mr. Smith and Daniel Todd. Attorney Christine A. Varney, a partner with Hogan & Hartson and an FTC commissioner from 1994 to 1997, represented Zango.
She includes ‘former FTC Commissioner’ on her resume when she is now a Zango advocate?
Is she trying to infer the FTC condones Zango? Who is Christine Varney
