if the browser act were to pass and you get an opt in or opt out, how do you keep facebook and others honest? through the federal trade commission. the ftc has been our nation s privacy regulator for decades. for the past 20 years, they have regulated the virtual space. they re the ones that issued the decree on facebook and brought them in compliance in 2011. that s when we started the privacy working group, which i chaired. for four years, we ve been trying to pass data security and privacy education. you need that statute. it s a regulator and the ftc can say all right, google or yahoo or youtube or facebook or whomever, you are outside the allowance given to you by
and congressman peter welch out of vermont and i spent two years chairing the privacy working group in congress and working on legislation. like i say, we would love for the democrats to join us in pushing it forward. why didn t any democrats join oun this legislation? you know, we were disappointed they didn t because last may you had a group of democrats that wrote then chairman wheeler at the fcc and opposed their moving forward. with this specific rule that we took that down so we could keep it from being implemented and have a clean slate to start working from. so you re right. you know, they had opposed it. and then they came out to oppose recalling the rule and so we would have loved for them to have joined us. and we would really like for them now to be working with us so that consumers have all the protections that are necessary
solutions and we re doing that. and stoch pointing fingers? we re doing that. i am co-chairing a data security and privacy working group. bipartisan. i have been joined by democrats and republican as original cosponsors on a mobile medical app bill called the software act. and this is going to allow a process for all of these mobile medical applications that increase access to health care in our rural and underserved areas. those are the type solutions wec want to see. we also would like to see across stateline purchase of health insurance. one of the things there is there are so many problems that are popping up every day. and new problems that arise every day. and i m glad that you re