Industry, target, home depot, so many other private corporations have had customer information stolen. And so what we have realized his we can try very hard to keep ahead of the hackers, but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information onto website. Right now, there are legal prohibitions for sharing classified information with the private sector, and as legal prohibitions on the private sector sharing information back with the government, termed as acting as agents of the government, and that is not allowed. We want to allow those barriers to be removed so that you could share information on threat signatures, very narrowly defined, so you are talking about when and zeros. Ones and zeros. If we could share that information, then when one hack is in one place, we can widely share that vulnerability and so it would probably protect everyone. Tonight at 8 00 eastern on the communicators one cspan2. Washington journal continues.
This week on the communicators were going to talk with the congressional cochairs of the privacy caucus and the cybersecurity caucus in congress. First up representative diana to get democrat of colorado serves on the energy and Commerce Committee and she is the privacy caucus cochair. Representative to get when it comes to technology where do you go your personal line between privacy and security . I think that most people who are putting information onto the internet whether its their Social Security number or other information they think its going to be secure most of the time. Unfortunately as we have learned all too well last year now american and israeli secure from cybersecurity breaches. Is there a remedy of any type and what can we do to protect that information . Of course both private companies and the government trying to keep up with these hackers but we have seen attack after attack. The most recent attack of course by the office of Personnel Management but also in privat
Are taking places and they have their own organizations and clubs on College Campuses. They encourage muslims who are native muslims to become more radical and more extreme, and to convert to islam, but which teaching of islam, the extreme way of teaching that, and encouraging many young people to even go overseas to join many radical and extremist groups, and this is a problem we are noticing and seeing. We have a program on College Campus to work with young people, muslim people, on College Campuses, and these problems that we are detecting in many campuses here and seeing a lot of young people being harassed by the radical groups on campus and not being able to practice their life like any ordinary american young student. Over here. Im glad we moved toward muslims because we were talking about them as though irtheyre mutual lie exclusive categories. Prime minister cam ran and cameron have spoken about being more proactive. I read about radicalization and recruitment. About the ideol
Bill frist and had the opportunity to watch firsthand governor alexander work was a pretty rowdy Democratic Legislature and tennessee that he came forth with education reform, with infrastructure, investments, industrial recruitment. I think regular order is back in the senate and will be a better country for that. Is fortune is going have a good partner in the house, someone for the good fortune to settle the Energy Commerce committee with, diana degette, and diane reminds me, when i think of her i think of a story my grandmother may read the of the detention a good. I think i can, i think i can. I know i can. Thats diana. Come forth with a major bipartisan vote in the house. Senator alexander come to the good partner and diana, tell us whats going on with you. [applause] thanks, part. Im so happy to be here. They dont invite us to come over from the house very often so its really a treat for us. Im so happy, lamar, to hear your reflections on some of these issues, because to some of
All right, bear with me here. I have all this technology but thank you everyone for coming today. Open to the Washington Post, im mike bowes, i cover Washington Congress for the post. Im here today to discuss the nations Opioid Crisis and i know i dont need help the people in this room about the scale of that crisis. The victims, families, doctors, Public Health officials, people that look like me and lawmakers like these have been spreading the word about whats been going on and were going to begin our program today with a discussion of the policy and government response and i invite you all to sit down. So turning me on stage and part me just a moment while i just, first we have Diana Degette of colorado, a senior democrat on the house committee, ranking democrat on the oversight and investigations subcommittee. She cosponsors or coauthored the 20th century jurors act with which put 1 billion of new federal funds into the full viewing epidemic to combat it. Chief deputy whip of the H