Privacy watchdogs this week spurred the FTC to take a close look at online advertising company DoubleClick (DCLK) and its policy of merging data about the online habits of consumers with such personal information as names and post addresses.

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The VCs responded by hiring Mark Wright, who had just sold his marketing software firm to online ad giant DoubleClick (nasdaq: DCLK - news - people ), to come up with an interim plan in the next few months.

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