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To focus on big tech and the economic monopoly they represent? >> well, first, we need our current laws to be enforced. we have antitrust laws in this country, in the state of missouri. we have laws that prohibit the taking of consumer information without consent. lets enforce the laws we have on the books. number two, we need to ask ourselves how our laws affect this new tech world were living in in this day in age in 2018. we need to look at our current legal regime. lets begin by enforcing it...

Enable targeted advertising with that data. but what facebook is saying is actually fooactually true. they dont sell sensitive consumer information to third parties. what they do is they store it, just like any other internet company, they store it and draw inferences from it within their systems. and they allow advertisers to tell them their preferences, and once facebook knows the preferences of the advertiser and knows their consumers, their users, it routes the ads in the most efficient mann...

Suggested rules or suggested legislation there are at least two schools of thought out there. one would be the isps, the internet service providers who are advocating for privacy protections for consumers that apply to all online entities equally across the entire internet ecosystem. now, facebook is an edge provider on the other hand. its my understanding that many edge providers, such as facebook, may not support that effort because edge providers have different business models than the isps a...

Do require that and use it to make service better by making sure your videos have audio. but thats pretty clear. i wanted to make sure i was exhausted. >> i appreciate that. hopefully that will dispel a lot of what ive been hearing. thank you. today in the era of mega-data, we are finding that data drives everything, including consumer behavior. consumer information is probably the most valuable information you can get in the data ecosystem. certainly folks, as youve mentioned in the testimony, ...

Suggested rules or suggested legislation that at least two -- there are at least two schools of thought out there. one would be the isps, the internet service providers who are advocating for privacy protections for consumers that apply to all online entities equally across the entire internet eco system. now, facebook is an edge provider on the other hand. its my understanding that many edge providers, such as facebook, may not support that effort because edge providers have different business ...

Returns and models the model on the one hand there were dozens of personal data items the firm gathered from the web registered now this is all the voter data here and this is what would normally be public in voter records but it its all accurate it has the day i registered to vote and it has figured out my birthday my address zip code down to you know all of my address its connected to census information its connected to all the different kinds of elections so u.s. congressional state senate st...

Returns and models the model on the one hand there were dozens of personal data items the firm gathered from the web registered now this is all the voter data here and this is what would normally be public in voter records but it its all accurate it has the day i registered to vote and it has figured out my birthday my address zip code down to you know all of my address is connected it to census information its connected to all the different kinds of elections so u.s. congressional state senate ...

New rule would protect passengers like him, but in march, the trump administration delayed it. >> we need this now. we needed it five years ago. >> reporter: in the final days of the obama administration, the department of transportation finalized the rule that would require airlines to report how many wheelchairs theyve lost or damaged. dotson says thats critical consumer information. >> give us the information we need to determine which airlines are going to treat us and our equipment with res...

Security exposures and paying good hackers for those. a company employs hackers, people on the good side who are going to do this. we see companies trying to make a proactive approach. you have to disclose it. we do need new regulations on these companies that dont expose when consumer information is stolen. its not their information. its ours. its not theirs. >> thats why when people are mad at equifax. its not just because it was stolen. just do the right thing. its 2017. we dont want you to l...

>> what weve seen here is the most outrageous, the most egregious example of a company not doing what it needs to do when it comes to protecting consumer information. >> and theres even more to it. and we have developments just today, and that is the company said early on, equifax said that there was a vulnerability in some software they were using. a web application made by apache software, an open source software. keep in mind the security breach occurred from mid may to mid july. but here is ...