For joining us today, i am the womens executive director of the Georgia Institute for a law in policy, its a think they tank based here in the law school where we do original policy work inflammation with her faculty and students and also spend a lot of time thinking about how we train lawyers and posing makers to better understand the many Ways Technology is impacting our society. There is no more pressing instances of that issue than the topic of the symposium today, Election Integrity and the networked in formation era, technology is reshaping many facets of our society including changing the venues, scope and toe of information sharing and the conversations. How these changes radar elections is a priority of the higher order, so the elections of the institutions and an area where arguably above all others we need public trust. There is no question the public trust and Democratic Institutions is being challenged in seismic race today, so that is to say we have a lot to talk about, t
Welcome to the foundation of democrat sees. I know moat of you, i met a lot of you, glad youre here. Today marks the release of a major report, maximum pressure, 2. 0, a plan for north korea. The report offers an actionable and multifaceted plan focused on the denuclearization of north korea. Today north korea, we have a young, mercurial, brutal and ruthal despot kim jongun armed with missiles and hes using the threat on america and americas allies. You may have seen reports earlier in the week in the Washington Times that a highlevel defector from north korea sent a letter to President Trump. The defector warned the administration that kim jongun is unlikely to give up his Nuclear Weapons absent significant additional pressure. Consistent with the recommendations and ftds new report which will be discussed today, the defector urges allout sanctions and what our report authors Call Information and influence operations. We understand that people of good faith may disagree on the path fo
Discussion on slave refugee camps during the war. Watch American History tv tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 3. This past june, facebook announced plans for its own crypto currency called libra. The cocreator of Libra David Marcus answered lawmakers concerned over the Digital Currency before the Senate Banking committee. This is about 2 1 2 hours. This hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus, head of libra at facebook. On may 9, senator brown and i sent a letter to facebook shortly after it was reported that the company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to help launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using its social network. Our letter asked facebook for more information about how the system would work. Its access to and use of Consumer Financial information, and facebooks access to and use of information on individuals or groups of individuals in credit, insure, employment or housing. I appreciate facebooks res
Proposali think the has huge potential, and i think the challenges for the transaction of the exchange for services and so forth, today, still has lots of obstacles to be overcome, including that of security and privacy. Nonetheless, we look forward to observing and participating in this because i really do think it is the wave of the future. As senator tillis said, we are either going to be responding to it or actively involved and running from it. Thank you. Senator cortez . Senator thank you very much. We appreciate you being here and answering the questions. This is obviously very innovative for all of us and exciting. Have a couple of questions if you thought through some concerns many of us have. One for me is something i dealt with in nevada as the attorney generals the issue of Money Laundering. I know there is clear Regulatory Oversight we have now to address Money Laundering that comes in so many forms, but one is terrorist financing that moneylaundering supports. How will th
Free cspan radio app. Earlier today facebooks david marcus testified before the Senate Banking committee to address concerns over the companys proposed Digital Currency. This is 2 hours and 20 minutes. This hearing will come to order. Today we will receive testimony from david marcus, head of libra at facebook. On may 9, senator brown and i sent a letter to facebook shortly after it was reported that the company was recruiting Financial Institutions and online merchants to help launch a cryptocurrency based Payment System using its social network. Our letter asked facebook for more information about how the system would work. Its access to and use of Consumer Financial information, and facebooks access to and use of information on individuals or groups of individuals in credit, insure, employment or housing. I appreciate facebooks response last week. Shortly after the letter was sent, facebook formally announce ds its intention to launch the Payment System libra and issued a white pape