Colorado . Yes we do. With Water Quality engineers so we worked collaborative leave with the epa and others to provide those resources to have a colorado solution. Part of your job is the people of the state of colorado that the water will be saved. Does it concern you that as the chairman noted as a followup to my question in the there was zero engineers at the epa working on the mind that had the high potential to blow out . With the state of colorado handled it that way . It concerns me but that doesnt mean they were not involved in some capacity. You are in the government. It is your job to have oversight. Wouldnt have been prudent for the epa to have that oversight to make good choices before we had a catastrophe . I dont know if they rely and other resources. He would handle the very differently . Our department has its own engineers for that situation. While we were talking, if you have the unlimited budget going forward, would you be supportive of the goods and your chin legisl
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
Advanced and as electronic data and storage have augmented traditional means of communicating and storing information, governmental access to data is more important. Ecpa is critical to tracking down criminals in investigations into murder, kidnapping, organized crime, child exploitati exploitation, Identity Theft, terrorism, and more, but criminal investigations are only a subset of the circumstances in which ecpa applies. The statute applies when the government acts as a civil litigant. We agree that notwithstanding several updates to ecpa the statute draws some lines that do not account for the development of technology and the ways in which we use electronic and stored communications today. For example, theres no principled basis to treat email less than 180 days old different from email more than 180 days old. Theres no lesser protection to emails that have been opened to emails that remain unopened. How to account for changes the technology while maintaining privacy protections a
Isp is compelled to produce the information. Indeed when seeking email content from isps in the past, the division provided notice to email account holders in keeping with long standing Supreme Court precedent. In the legislation was so structured, the individual would have the ability to raise with the court any privilege or concern before the communications are provided to an isp. While civil Law Enforcements may have a limited avenue. Such a judicial proceeding would offer greater protection to subscribers than a criminal warrant in which subscribers receive no opportunity to be heard before communications are provided. Thank you again for the opportunity to be here today. We look forward to working with the kbhcommittees on ways to modernize ecpa. Im happy to answer any questions that you have. Thank you, andrew. Daniel . Chairman grassley, Ranking Member leahy, and members of the committee, thank you. Let me begin by noting that my oral statements and responses to questions are my
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