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Children have taken their own lives because of your products? >> this is not causal research. >> it is your companys reporting. you knew it was there but you didnt do anything about it. >> not at all optimistic after the head like facebook doesnt do anything about doing the right thing. there is bipartisan support for this and i feel as though weve been hearing. youve been very active on this issue. americans are frustrated when you see left and right singing the same tune where is the legislati...

It and i agree with the president. >> if they are regulated how would you feel? >> that would be a challenging endeavor. i favor the browser act. this relates to the whole issue. first, lets get to the bottom of it. >> there was a state. google put-out. we dont bias our results for any political ideology. we continue to work on google search and never fix searches. do you believe them? >> well see what happens on capitol hill this week. im a cautious lawyer. thats why we are holding our hearing....

We will remember. republican congresswoman marsha blackburn, where he was about four hours ago, did you get your questions answered to your content about privacy, what they will do? >> no, i did not. i thought it was interesting that she was ill prepared. he didnt realize there was privacy legislation in the browser act. he seemed to be unaware of that. coming before congress, coming before the committee, before the member who has written a bill, me, and not to be aware that privacy, having one ...

Federal statutes, is social media. thats why we have to have one regulator, one set of rules for the internet ecosystem and i push forward the browser act. its bipartisan. ive had the act for well over a year. its time for us to pass it and get it to the presidents desk. >> harris: some of the observation about these hearings is that the questions from the left side of the political aisle have been more toward regulation than the right side. what do you say about that? >> what we want is not a p...

If the browser act were to pass and you get an opt in or opt out, how do you keep facebook and others honest? >> through the federal trade commission. the ftc has been our nations privacy regulator for decades. for the past 20 years, they have regulated the virtual space. theyre the ones that issued the decree on facebook and brought them in compliance in 2011. thats when we started the privacy working group, which i chaired. for four years, weve been trying to pass data security and privacy edu...

Federal statutes. therefore, we are going to conduct an investigation and issued to you criminal violations or penalties however we move forward with that component of it." yes, we need data security, breach notification, and privacy, reserved to the individual the right to protect themselves online. >> harris: boy, its interesting. ive been watching a couple days of this. im really curious to see how much buy-in these companies are going to have. the browser act offered by congresswoman blackbu...

Marsha blackburn a candidate for the u.s. senate in tennessee. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> sandra: do you think the ftc will find wrongdoing by facebook here? >> were going let the ftc conduct their investigation but what we do know is the social media search engines, that component of the eco system on the internet has not been transparent in how they protect privacy or how they secure data. sandra, ive had the browser act and tried to get privacy legislation passed. i talk to secu...

And then they sell that information and they make billions of dollars by controlling both what is going on from the publisher, you, putting things online and then selling that information to the advertisers and they make that money. >> sandra: congresswoman, is congress considering new regulations on facebook? >> what we are considering is legislation. you go back to 2011 when the ftc came at facebook for their privacy policy. and the agreement was reached in 2011. youre also looking at what im ...

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