Absolutely. Ok. I am curious. There is so much positive year. The opportunity for big data to enrich our lives gets me excited about the future. These businesses have a wonderful public purpose but i worry about the darker side in the way my chairman is discussing. As sayingas simple chance heresy. This is transparency. How were you planning on using act tothority under ftc study and stay abreast of the industry and see if there are needs and opportunities like in this one where the industry is or selfecting regulating where we can get them to the point where we are balancing all of these incredible positives of big data with obvious downsides . We think about this every positives but the also protecting consumers. In this case, i think the first step is pretty simple. There is very little transparency about data brokers. Transparency, it is pretty basic. It is not a technological issue. Circumstances, the way we balance is we engage in a constant learning process and we do workshops a
Some other witnesses come you have expense we got federal government website from inside developing countermeasures against potential attacks and ensuring that websites are as secure as possible. Is it true that what might appear like a security vulnerability or even a successful exploit from the outside does not actually always result in a security to . Thats correct. We like to set things called honeypots meanings will set up we want to know what the attackers are actually doing to our websites and their systems so we set up articles and services that may not have anything to do with the website to find out who is coming in, what theyre doing so that we can then build countermeasures internally to deal with those. Ive also been told a weakness in place so that hackers will waste their time. Of the times as i understand it, these weaknesses are put in place in what i. T. Professions like you say, honeypots were a hacker our white hacker gets caught trying to penetrate a system as you
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Er raf congressional history. Im confident we can move these issues forward in a bipartisan way. Chairman issa and congressman connelly reform act. It passes committee on a bipartisan basis. We need the committee to put forward a bipartisan lowhanging fruit year. More than just one a year. And take the information that we have readily availability to us. We are agreeing on of it. We arent doing anything really about it. So this Committee Still finds those and you do too the 900 hammers. I look forward to many more hearings like this and finding real area of cooperation. We can make a difference. Thank you very much for being here. I thank the gentlelady. I thank the members. I mean, i know chairman issa appreciates everyones cooperation. I have to thank our witnesses for the extensive testimony and participation today. Its a great way to start off the new year. There being no further business before the government reform and oversight committee, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you. [i
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