The show to members of congress. This week on the communicators well talk with members of congress as well as some of the companies, and well also showcase some of the latest technologies. Gary shapiros the ceo of cpa which is sponsoring this show on capitol hill. Whats important to bringing these companies to capitol hill to meet with legislators . Guest well, we have a couple dozen companies, and we wanted to give the members of congress a quick, easy sample of what we do every year in about las vegas with 2. 5 million square feet. We want them to see innovation happening thats happening in the u. S. , lifechanging innovation whether its health care, its car navigation, its in health and safety, so many other things so they understand the decisions they make have reallife consequences. Host so, mr. Shapiro, whats your early impression of the Trump Administration and the Tech Community . Guest i think the Trump Administration wants the Tech Community to succeed. It measures itself by
We have a couple of Dozen Companies and wanted to give the numbers congress a quick,ese sample of what we do every year in las vegas, which is about 4,000 companies, not a couple of dozen, and thats half a million square feet. We want them to see innovation happening in the u. S. And lifechanging innovation, whether its in health care, car navigation, health and safety, so many other things, so they understand the decisions they mae make have real life consequences. What is your early impression of the Trump Administration and the Tech Community . I think the Trump Administration wants the Tech Community to citied and help drive the stock market. Were seeing positive action on nafta, rewriting it in a way which will not be harmful to american industry. Also movement on overregulation and. What be the fcc, early signs from the fcc and. The fcc chairman has redefined what the commission is doing in a very positive probusiness way. Focus on regulation and privacy. Its not the big power gr
In chief megan murphy. A story on synthetic Identity Theft. I had not heard of this. Megan it is a really troubling and quite spooky story about how fraudsters are doing Something Different than just stealing existing identities. They are actually compiling their own identity. What is so fascinating is its a long game. This can take months, even years to pay off. They have to keep establishing the identity, keep applying for credit for the ultimately cash out. Oliver it is like a weird ponzi scheme of credit fraud. What is interesting is you guys detailed somebody in the story, the actual degree to which they are able to do this. 340,000 using credit cards. A fleet of vehicles. How does it get so out of control . Megan they basically try to come up with Social Security numbers they might be going to be used that have not been used, or they take an existing number. They will use it to apply for credit with no address. The Credit Card Companies frequently reject these applications. But o
Carol we are here with editorinchief megan murphy. And in the finance section a , story on synthetic Identity Theft. I had not heard of this. Megan it is a really troubling and quite spooky story, about how fraudsters are doing Something Different than just stealing existing identities. They are actually compiling their own identity. What is so fascinating is its a long game. This can take months, even years to pay off. They have to keep establishing the identity, keep applying for credit for the ultimately cash out. Oliver it is like a weird ponzi scheme of credit fraud. But what is interesting about this is, you guys detailed somebody in the story, the actual degree to which they are able to do this. 340,000 using credit cards. A fleet of vehicles. I mean, how does it get so out of control . Megan heres what they do. They basically try to come up with Social Security numbers they might be going to be used that have not been used, or they take an existing number. They will use it to a
In chief megan murphy. A story on synthetic Identity Theft. I had not heard of this. Megan it is a really troubling and quite spooky story about how fraudsters are doing Something Different than just stealing existing identities. They are actually compiling their own identity. What is so fascinating is its a long game. This can take months, even years to pay off. They have to keep establishing the identity, keep applying for credit for the ultimately cash out. Oliver it is like a weird ponzi scheme of credit fraud. What is interesting is you guys detailed somebody in the story, the actual degree to which they are able to do this. 340,000 using credit cards. A fleet of vehicles. How does it get so out of control . Megan they basically try to come up with Social Security numbers they think might be going to be used that have not been used, or they take an existing number. They will use it to apply for credit with no address. The Credit Card Companies frequently reject these applications.