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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 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 fact, they've all made commit ms not to sell that personal information. we wrote a privacy report i...

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 doesn't 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 put out a privacy bill of rights in which it called for the ftc to be the sole privacy enforcer acros...

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 he's 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 a much smarter way. the second thing is, and this was one of the fundamental flaws, i think, in th...