Background sounds. [background sounds] the task force will not come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee any time that went out objection. There authorized to participate inconsistent we put the practice. Challenges and opportunities. The chair will now recognize himself performance for an opening statement. Thank you everyone for joining us today for what should be a very interesting hearing on the task force to explain the dangerous threat of Identity Theft. Ai is making it easier. How we can safeguard one of the most important things to have in our Digital Economy. That is our identities. Identity fraud is the usually important problem. In 2018 alone, almost 15 billion is estimated to have been stolen from us consumers online. If this doesnt include the more indirect future cost of having a compromise identity. Today criminals have lots of tools. They get sensitive Consumer Financial data, and there is a complicated situation that a member of Congress
Good monday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Obviously watching the dow down 142. Oil is the story of the day. Prices surging following attack on the Worlds Largest Oil Production facility in saudi arabia, disrupting the Global Supply of crude. Brian sullivan in houston with more on this hi again, brian. Reporter hey, carl, good morning. Playing a little zeppelin rock and roll there the market is rocking and rolling. So many effects from the attack, moments ago the u. S. Telling saudi arabia they believe they came from iranian soil lets put size and scope into perspective. I know you talked about how big this outtake facility really is, and it is not completely analogous. Heres a good example. We showed it earlier 5. 7 Million Barrels off line, facility is 7 million total barrels, 10 million all together there were two attacks so the two attacks outcake is what the market is focused on they hope to come online slowly the next couple of days. If you factored in five of the biggest refi
National copyright cable Satellite Corp 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] good morning. Good morning. In the best possible way what is facebook trying to do and why . Very interesting questions. The simple answer is that they are trying to create a digital that people can use cross borders, and a Digital Currency means not necessarily a government currency, but their own private currency that people can use and ship to one another in different parts of the world. Reasons why they are doing this is a little bit complex, because no one knows exactly they have certainly xplicitly said that they want to, and im reading this because think its useful for your listeners to hear, to enable a simple global currency and infrastructure that empowers billions of people. Ut there are some financial motives as well. And so, as far as the current system, what would facebooks others do not . S
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