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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has announced the agenda and panelists for its upcoming privacy seminar examining the scope and effects of alternative scoring products, which will take place March 19 from 10 a.m. to noon.

The seminar, which is part of the FTC’s spring privacy series, will take a closer look at the growing field of alternative scoring, in which companies use data about consumers to create scores designed to predict consumer behavior. Speakers and panelists will examine the privacy questions and possible benefits to consumers from these alternative scoring products.

The seminar is free and open to the public, and will be held at the FTC Conference Center at 601 New Jersey Ave., NW, in Washington.

The agenda and panelists are as follows:

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