Republicans Concerned About Google-DoubleClick Merger

REPUBLICANS CONCERNED ABOUT GOOGLE-DOUBLECLICK MERGER
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
A dozen Republican members of the House Consumer Protection Subcommittee called on Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) to hold hearings on the proposed merger of Google and DoubleClick. They said they are concerned about the privacy implications of combining the mammoth search engine's database with the online behavioral-marketing database of DoubleClick. Chairman Rush already wrote the Federal Trade Commission expressing concerns about online privacy and consumer protection, and the subcommittee held a September hearing on the competitive impact of the merger, but the Republicans want another hearing dealing with the privacy implications, saying that more questions were raised than answered.
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