Replayhenry clay. Next, depending the u. S. From Cyber Attacks. Subcommittee held a hearing with members of the cyber space mission. Recommendations including ways to streamline information between the agencies. [silence]. Soon a good afternoon. Breaking members should be here shortly. He had a meeting off of the hill and partially. Inc. You senator blumenthal for being here. Senator purdue as well. We have a number of our other members joining us virtually today. Today the Cyber Security subcommittee welcomes the first time, collies to present the findings of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission rate our friend senator king, from a rep. Gallagher from wisconsin. They are joined by fellow commissioner and retired general john, professor of cyber studies at the u. S. Naval academy and former Deputy Director of the National Security agency. Welcome to all. Thank you for coming to discuss this important topic at todays hearing. I like to extend my congratulations as well to Mike Gallagher a
Good afternoon. Senator manchin, Ranking Member should be here shortly. He had a meeting off the hill. Thank you, senator blumenthal, for being here. Senator purdue, as well. We have a number of our other members who are joining us virtually today. Today, the cybersecurity subcommittee welcomes for the first time colleagues to present the findings of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Our friend, senator king, and representative gallagher. Theyre joined by fellow commissioner, retired Brigadier General, john c. Inglis. Welcome to all. Thank you for coming to discuss this important topic in todays hearing. I would like to extend my congratulations as well no Mike Gallagher and her wife ann on the recent birth of their birthday girl, grace. Good luck on your greatest adventure yet and all the amazing moments yet to come associated with it. I would like to recognize Mark Montgomery who serves or who served as executive director of the commission. Section 1652 of if ndaa establishes Cyber
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Florida. I recognize the gentleman from north dakota for five minutes. Bezos, my colleagues brought up they were discussing thirdparty sellers this policy specifically noted possible loopholes that allow amazon to review nonpublic and aggregate data to inform private rams even in instances where there are only a few thirdparty sellers. Where exactly does amazon draw the line . Data would bee more than one seller . The person seeing the report would have no way of knowing how rs are inside that group or what the breakdown would be between those sellers. That is different from a list or product ranking which we do make public. Does amazon allow the use of aggregate data to inform private label amazon brands when there only a few sellers for a product . Does amazon look at i could dictate up when there are only two sellers of a product . Yes, sir. Isand my correct amazon conducting an internal investigation on the use of thirdparty data . Are basically trying to understand some of the ane
Industry. They took questions about the use of thirdparty seller data and allegations of anticonservative bias. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing on marketing power. Amazon, apple, facebook, and google. I would like to remind members we have established a distribution list dedicated to circulating specific motions or other written materials members might want as part of our hearing today. If you would like to submit materials, submit them to the email address distributed to your offices. We will circulate materials as quickly as we can. Thatld also remind members face coverings are required for all meetings in an enclosed space such as Committee Hearings. I expect all members on both sides of the aisle to wear a mask except when you are speaking. I recognize myself for an opening bateman Opening Statement. This committee launched an investigation into Digital Markets to document compe