I want to thank Ranking Member klobuchar and her staff for working closely with me and my office as we prepared for today and i also want to thank our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to sit in for us, just dont be eisenhower sitting on a stone block in the direction of the greatest accomplishments the president of the United States and Supreme Commander of the forces him. Greg on welcome to todays hearing with the policy and Consu
Grand prize of 5,000. The deadline to submit videos is january 20th, 2021. For competition rules, tips, and more information on how to get started, go to our website, studentcam. Org. Now, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing examining googles Online Advertising and its potential impact on Market Competition. Lawmakers heard first from a google representative, then a panel of technology and trade association officials. There was also a focus on googles Online Search engine, data privacy issues, and antitrust legislation. Welcome to todays hearing of the subcommittee on antitrust competition policy and consumer rights. The title we have chosen for today is stacking the tech, hasi googleke harmed competition in Online Advertising . I want to thank Ranking Member klobuchar and her staff for working closely with me and my o office as we prepared for today. And also want to thank our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this he
Our chairman, the chairman of the full Senate Judiciary committee, senator graham, for his support of this hearing. After i and then senator klobuchar giving our opening remarks, well hear from two panels of witnesses with questions from members of the subcommittee. We have Something Interesting to deal with in the senate and every time they call votes, when they call votes during a subcommittee hearing, were at their mercy. Senator klobuchar and i have both cast our votes on the first of a series of three or four. At some point, were going to have to pause or tag team as we allow other members to sit in for us, just dont be alarmed if that happens. The focus of todays hearing is googles Online Advertising business. Whether its a monopolyist and whether it might have engaged in any conduct that harms competition and harms consumers. But before we go into that, i want to say just a few things about antitrust policy more broadly. Ive been a member of the subcommittee ever since 2011 when
Big offering at ces. Meg whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg in las vegas. First our top story, the threat of war brings profits for the defense industry, and a risk of Cyber Attacks from iran could shine a spotlight on assets. Take a look at how these firms performed, their shares gained about 8 the last few days. It is indicative that cyber volleys between the u. S. And iran are not going away anytime soon. To discuss what could be next, marcus is a director at an ai security firm. In studio, our reporter. Ingot the attacks from iran physical form. Does that mean we are clear from the cyber perspective . Definitely not. There is a significant distinction between irans conventional battlefield capabilities and where they are on the cyber front. They are never going to go toe to toe with the United States in this realm in a conventional battle. In the cyber realm, they have a greater chance of pushing back more dramatically and having a greater impact in the United States, so even though th
Shocking story on the front page of the times, of goings on within britains prisons. It is talking about the fact that there are probably a lot of, sort of influence and conversion to islamic extremism in prisons, and it follows of the back of a review in 2016 looking at how this could be approached, and pa rt how this could be approached, and part of the problem, when i was looking at this, is we havent had a consistent justice secretary for more than 18 months since 2015, so over the past four and a half years we have had five different secretaries, and we dont have consistency in looking to address the problem, even though this has been widely researched and there we re been widely researched and there were a whole suite of recommendations made in 2016, but it will clearly be a growing problem, and prisons will be a natural cultivating ground for extremism, and views of every type because of the close contact, the close quarters, and how disenfranchised people will be feeling within