The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. E-COMMERCE

Online consumers are getting smarter about which websites they trust with their personal information, according to a new poll.

CEI Expert Available for Comment: Vice President Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr. on why solutions to cybersecurity challenges lie with markets, not government mandates.

2. BUSINESS

Yet another initiative is announced, this time in Australia, in the name of the movement for “corporate social responsibility.”

CEI Expert Available for Comment: President Fred L. Smith, Jr. and others examine the global CSR agenda at next week’s conference, “Corporate Social Responsibility Reconsidered.”

3. HEALTH & SAFETY

Health advocacy group Africa Fighting Malaria urges international agencies and donor nations to redirect funds to the most effective insecticides and anti-malarial drugs.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Analyst Steven Milloy on the desperate need to include DDT in the global fight against malaria.