To participate in todays hearing. Members are reminded to keep p their video function on at all ible for hemsel theyre notot recognized by the chair. Ve the members are also reminded ey that they are responsible for muting and unmuting themselves. To mute themselves after they r have finished speaking. Consistent with regulations, 96s astaff will only mute members and witnesses as appropriate when not recognized to avoid inadvertent background noise an otherre embarrassments. Members are reminded that all house rules related to order ano decorum apply to this remote trn hearing. G this hearings entitled exposure notification and Contact Tracing, how ai helps localities open safety and researchers finn it pure. Statem i will now recognize myself for four minutes to give an openingc statement. Good morning. Todays hearing will focus on the essential trade offs that ry the covid19 pandemic is forcing upon us to make between life, liberty, privacy, and the pursuit of happiness. A and the r
Being here. What role does the National Womens law center play in this sexual tion about harassment uest we are a womens Rights Advocacy organization, engage with policy makers at the to ral level and the states strengthen Legal Protection against harassment. The courts, e in arguing for robust thatpretations of the laws protect women from harassment nd we recently launched Legal Network for gender equity to help connect women who are harassment and other forms of discrimination with attorneys willing to take cases on. Host is that your recommendation . If a woman has been harassed, immediately get a lawyer . Guest well, i think that it is often really help to feel have a sense of what your rights are, mean you immediately go to court and file a complaint. There often are other strategies that make sense as a first step, informaltalking to your support networks, friend, what es, strategize responses might be productive here. Bringing complaint internally to hr, often is the appropriate
Didnt find a whole lot in terms of studies that have looked at these things. Theres a lot of studies that talk about computer assisted and used to design a program that could be effective. What criteria is success . Well, first of all i think it was successful in that we did achieve what Congress Actually asked us to do in 1996, make sure that it was no inequality in terms of, you know, highincome areas having classrooms connected and lowincome areas not. By the way, in the early phase, not sure that will be true of the reform of the erate, but there certainly were studies that suggested that the erate in the years 97 through 2002 i think actually helped drive an upgrade to broadband in those areas where you had erate finding. It was kind of an anchor institution that drove greater connectivity. Look, i appreciate that. I think if you look at the weight of all the evidence that came in from various groups, and you can say they are biased, support for reform of the program to have wifi
Know, the holy grail of i. T. Used to be four ts which still allows you time to update your systems, take them down if you need to, but you cant take down a water pump to update or patch the latest, you cant take down the water pump thats feeding the washington area, so it makes it very hard to align the needs of i. T. And opt t. , and that creates o. T. And that creates gaps that people looking to create nuisance can exploit. In the nearterm, mediumterm, the first thing is that nist met your name in report, Matt Skolnick to come up with a definition in a good way, yes. Any to come up with a dolby the definition for this government. The reports go to the president and recommendations have to be at the president ial level and actionable for the president. Its not going to be director private sector. It would what can the government do in certain areas. The first one was that nist should find for the u. S. Government what iot is. Its likely to be probably the last definition but least a
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