Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you so much for attending our brief the hill event. Im emma morris, the Global Policy director at fozi. Id like to thank kmoonk carden as and his staff for securing the room for us. Briefly by way of background for those who arent familiar with the family Online Safety institute, were a Nonprofit Organization working to make the online world safer for kids and their families. Were pleased to host this panel today to discuss one of the most important issues facing families, kids privacy on the internet. In the united states, the collection and processing of childrens data has primarily been regulated by the childrens Online Privacy protection act and its corresponding rule for over 20 years. This law long preceded facebook, snapchat, youtube and hello barbie. We have seen numerous legislative proposals including from senator markey to change the way childrens legislation is regulated. At the beginning of the summer the federal trade Commission Publish
To change the way it is regulated. The ftc [inaudible] , you of this in mind should have received on your way in. We believe that limiting the Data Collected from children and preventing Online Marketing to to under 13 absent her absent parental consent. We also want to ensure businesses comply with the law and protect data on gauging in children. Childrensprotect information rather than ignore data. With that in mind, i will hand over to stephen. And thankou very much you to the team led by emma. Also, as it is probably obvious, cspan is here. We are live, so one questions you could be on broadcast tv. , i will be ceo moderating the panel. Video at cspan will be archived at cspan and will also provide a link. Im going to ask this panel to introduce themselves, starting with you mark. If you could tell us who you are, where you work and a description of your work in this space. Im an assistant director in the Privacy Division and i have been in that job for about 10 years. What the ftc
This hearing is 2 1 2 hours. Good morning. Today we welcome four nominees to testify before the committee as we consider their nominations to serve as commissioners of the federal trade commission. Nominated to serve as a commissioner and ftc chairman and his credentials are impressive. Mr. Simon served as the ftcs chief antitrust enforcer, among other positions the the commission. Most recently, he served and was partner and cochair of the entrust group at a law firm. Christine wilson is an antitrust and Consumer Protection attorney who served as Vice President for regulatory and International Affairs at delta airlines. She too as worked at the commission before serving as chief of staff to kim murris during the george w. Bush administration. Noah Joshua Phillips is a familiar face to many of us, as he currently serves as chief counsel to senator john cornyn, where he advises on issues such as antitrust and intellectual property. Finally. Mr. Chopra has extensive experience in Governm
And Transportation Committee heard from the four nominees on issues including antitrust laws, Prescription Drug pricing, Credit Rating agencies and the influence of Big Tech Companies like google and facebook. This hearing is 2 1 2 hours. Good morning. Today we welcome four nominees to testify before the committee as we consider their nominations to serve as commissioners of the federal trade commission. Nominated to serve as a commissioner and ftc chairman and his credentials are impressive. Mr. Simon served as the ftcs chief antitrust enforcer, among other positions the the commission. Most recently, he served and was partner and cochair of the entrust group at a law firm. Christine wilson is an antitrust and Consumer Protection attorney who served as Vice President for regulatory and International Affairs at delta airlines. She too as worked at the commission before serving as chief of staff to kim murris during the george w. Bush administration. Noah Joshua Phillips is a familiar f
We have seen serious issues come to light. The Credit Bureau was falsely marking consumers as terrorists and we have to get to these core accuracy issues and that is something that warrants bipartisan attention about what we can do to make sure the plumbing of our Consumer Financial infrastructure is working better. We need to use the fair credit reporting act as well as other laws. I agree the commission needs to amp up its work with respect to consumer reporting. Final question, i have spoken to you about this. Im interested in this area of predictive algorithms, some is simple Data Analytics available decades ago, some is getting more robust and sophisticated. I am interested in this space because it is not clear who has jurisdiction. Some of it may be doj, some might be the fcc, algorithms that serve as a proxy for race or geographic locations or disability status and these predictive algorithms are sold as a product to a government or a company, but they are a black box because th