Rules and procedures when things go wrong. The European Commission will be proposing a new european law. In this field which will tackle the issue of supervision of personal data and control of personal data every time we access a website and it asks us to establish a new Digital Identity or set up a user profile or to register on my platform the fact is we simply dont know what will happen to our data we must put a stop to this. And. This is why the European Commission well come forward with a proposal for a new secure Digital Identity one that we can really trust and that citizens can use europe wide for everything whether its right renting a bicycle or paying taxes. And identity that you have full control over where you can control the data that is transferred and how it is used that is our idea of a Technology Focused and centered around people. For the service of people in the 3rd focal point in infrastructure. We must keep up with the racing pace of technology and if we want to b
Your unfiltered view of government. Created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. This week on the communicators, a democratic member of the federal trade commission, rebecca slaughter. Our guest reporter is leah nylund who covers technology for politico. Hasissioner slaughter, what this pandemic been like for you when it comes to your work . You soaughter thank much for having me. It is a pleasure to be here today. As you can see from my special guest here, what this pandemic has involved for me in part is a lot of time with a brandnew baby and juggling those responsibilities, which is not a common occurrence for commissioners in a pandemic or not in a pandemic, so i have been muddling through that. In terms of the work of the agency, its been an important and fascinating time. We switched to all telework quickly, relatively seamlessly, in march, which i was very impressed by. Even though the technological work
Insurance and the Affordable Care act and every Health Insurance policy sold in america is subject to the law of the Affordable Care act. If the Supreme Court does with the Trump Administration and republicans are asking it to do, 20 million americans could lose their healthcare coverage, 600,000 of them, tens of millions of americans with preexisting conditions, including the 5 million in illinois will lose protections the Affordable Act currently gives them, 6 million americans have been diagnosed with positive results from covid19. Many more sadly, will be diagnosed in the years ahead. They, of course, must answer the question have you ever tested positive for covid19 and if they answer they will have a pre existing condition which the Insurance Company used to jump on to either raise your premiums or deny you coverage and if republicans have their way before the Supreme Court young adults up to the age of 26 will no longer be able to stand stay on their parents Health Insurance pai
Pieces, competition antitrust law and Consumer Protection which covers a wide swath of territory but includes everything from gardenvariety scams to fight the enforcement in both of those areas squarely in the middle of a lot of really interesting changes that our society is going through and technology which all of us are dealing and not many of us are using. Host technology and telecommute occasions have become a bigger part of your portfolio over the last couple of years, havent they . To some extent yes. I say to some extent because telecommute occasions are much more the purview of the Commerce Department then the ftc but for example with respect to privacy we do work there with respect to advertising claims we do work there and certainly technology is a big part of what we do. Host antitrust when it comes to technology, correct . Guest yes, very much so. Host there was a recent article in the wall street journal talking about the potential lawsuit against facebook. Could you tell
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