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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 didn't 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 set of rules, one regulator for the entire internet ecosystem. this is something that i have worked...

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 didn't 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 for the entire internet ecosystem? this is something i have worked on in a bipartisan manner for fo...

Federal statutes, is social media. that's why we have to have one regulator, one set of rules for the internet ecosystem and i push forward the browser act. it's bipartisan. i've had the act for well over a year. it's time for us to pass it and get it to the president's 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 penalty of regulators, we want one statute. complete 13 pages that allows consumers to opt in an...

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. it's my understanding that many edge providers, such as facebook, may not support that effort because edge providers have different business models than the isps and should not be considered like services. so, do you think we need consistent privacy protections ...

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 children's 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. what's wrong with that? >> well, i think as a theory there's nothing wrong with that. i think in term...