Folks are shuffling in. I will just go ahead and get started in the interest of encouraging them to everyone to kong regular eight again. Thanks to those of you whove stuck with us through a long and fascinating day at the 2016 Cato Institute surveillance conference. Our last pair of flash talks is going to focus on some of the global aspects of u. S. Surveillance. At cato of course were big fans of the constitution. We tend to focus very much on the Fourth Amendment and domestic law and how it regulates surveillance of american citizens and their rights. But the scope of american surveillance, both for Law Enforcement and intelligence purposes, is now really global in scale. So as a result it has implications for the human rights of people around the world but also for our political and diplomatic and economic relationships with other countries, in particular the economic interests of u. S. Companies that hope to do business around the globe. So talk about two aspects of that. Alan bu
Folks are shuffling in. I will just go ahead and get started in the interest of encouraging them to everyone to kong regular eight again. Thanks to those of you whove stuck with us through a long and fascinating day at the 2016 Cato Institute surveillance conference. Our last pair of flash talks is going to focus on some of the global aspects of u. S. Surveillance. At cato of course were big fans of the constitution. We tend to focus very much on the Fourth Amendment and domestic law and how it regulates surveillance of american citizens and their rights. But the scope of american surveillance, both for Law Enforcement and intelligence purposes, is now really global in scale. So as a result it has implications for the human rights of people around the world but also for our political and diplomatic and economic relationships with other countries, in particular the economic interests of u. S. Companies that hope to do business around the globe. So talk about two aspects of that. Alan bu
The the ftc supports the objectives of ecpa reform and understands the need to update it to account for technological advances. And to protect consumers privacy. In bringing actions, we rely heavily on our ability to conduct thorough investigations. Of Companies Business practices. As a civil Law Enforcement agency, the fccs concerned that recent proposals to update ecpa could impede our ability to obtain certain information from ecpa Service Providers. In proposals, to obtain content from a Service Provider, the government could need to obtain a criminal warrant. Which is not available to the ftc. The proposals would require a warrant for all forms of content, even those in which a subscriber has no reasonable expectation to privacy. We are concerned that requiring a criminal warrant in three situations would impede effectiveness. Were talking about things like no longer running advertisements, previously sent spam, and ads on a mobile device. This content is critical to ftc investiga
Under the hyde amendment, zero taxpayer lawers, this is a matter of law that go into the abortions. The v. A. Program and medical health care, the government does work in the health care, and under the hyde amendment, zero taxpayer dollars go toward abortion. So this comes down to what do we think about the attempts the practical attempts to make it almost impossible for a clinic to get started that performs abortion. As long as it is legal and women want to exercise their legal rights, i think it is wrong to instead of trying to change the law, to try to do things like get rid of planned parenthood and the clinics that provide these things, that is the way to go about this. If you disagree with borgs, i respect that, even if i dont agree with it. But the fact of the matter is taxpayer dollars dont go to the performance of abortions. Obama care, by the way, also had a an exemption for churches. The catholic church, for example, which and and other religious institutions that oppose abo
Supplemental proposal we put out last year. But the whole idea is and this is following the congressional mandate the importer must have a program, a documented program where they have identified their suppliers, theyve come to understand their suppliers capability for food safety, theyve approved the suppliers, they know the practices is supplier is under taking and they look at records and they and under some circumstance, when justified by risk because its intended to be a riskbased foreign supply Verification Program we would envision the u. S. Based importer doing an audit. Having an audit conducted an on site audit of that foreign producer. So its having a real program that we can then audit and obviously go behind that and sample product when its coming in, go behind that and actually inspect the foreign facility if we choose to. But it thats accountability for the importer thats the new feature. The word audit has a different meaning than inspect, isnt that true . So when theyr