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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 ...

Terrorism. >> marsha blackburn, member of the energy and commerce committee, did you get your questions answered to your contentment about privacy and addressing these concerns? >> i did not. i thought it was interesting that he was so ill prepared. he didnt realize there is privacy legislation, he seemed unaware of that and how can you be coming before congress, before the committee, before the member who has written the bill, me, and not be aware privacy having one set of rules, one regulator ...

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...

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...

Away from my former agency, the ftc. >> okay. so "the washington post" had this encapsulation. put it up on the screen in terms of what the rules would have done. under the rules internet providers must get your explicit permission to share or sell things such as your geolocation information, your health information, your childrens information, your financial information, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. to me that sounds like a good thing, yeah, you should have to get my explicit permission. wh...

Cetera, et cetera. to me that sounds like a good thing, yeah, you should have to get my explicit permission. whats wrong with that? >> well, i think as a theory theres nothing wrong with that. i think in terms of the way that the fcc e if he cffectuated its proposal is deeply flawed. let me take you through the facts. one fact is for 20 years the ftc had oversight over the entire internet ecosystem including broadband providers. and broadband providers were not selling personal information. in f...

Signed into law, then the fcc could write another rule. it just has to be written differently. and we think it could be written in a much smarter way. the second thing is, and this was one of the fundamental flaws, i think, in the fcc approach. it only applies to broadband providers. it doesnt apply to all the other collectors of information on the internet including google and facebook and others. and it was in fact in 2012 president obama put out a privacy bill of rights, the administration pu...

Free rein to do what they like with your browsing history, shopping habits, your location and other information gleaned from your online activity, but it would also prevent the fcc from ever again establishing similar consumer privacy protections. why in your view is he wrong? >> well, i think hes wrong because first of all if the cra, the congressional review act is signed into law, then the fcc could write another rule. it just has to be written differently. and we think it could be written in...