This is two hours and 15 minutes. The joint hearing of the subcommittee and Risk Management and livestock and aquaculture entitled to review the implementation of the federal farm Disaster Relief will come to order. Thank you and welcome to the joint hearing subcommittees of the general farm commodities Risk Management and livestock and foreign agriculture is a. Im pleased to be joined by my colleague as well as my esteemed Ranking Member into the chairman and fellow Ranking Member mike conaway the first hearing comes at a very important time for farmers. Usda and in particular the Conservation Mission area in Farm Service Agency is in the middle of a huge job. Currently at the helm of three efforts to address the needs of farmers, ranchers and the communities in the country. The Market Facilitation Program which is meant to assist the farmers most directly harmed by the trade war and the expanded wildfires overcame Indemnity Program which will aid in the recovery from the natural disa
Now more from the Cybersecurity Conference hosted by billington cybersecurity in washington, d. C. This Panel Discusses the importance of public and private collaboration as well as enhassing cloud security. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Okay, good afternoon, everybody, again. Welcome to the second part of our program. Id like to invite you back and well bring our next panelist here. Thank you again for keeping your conversations a little bit more quiet on the outside by the booths so we can listen to our panelists. So this next panel is very interesting called new models of public, private cyber collaboration. The moderator is mr. Will ash. He is a senior director of Security Sales used Public Sector global Security Sales for cisco. Joining him on the panel is Major General ed wilson, United States air force retired, secretary of defense, assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy in the office of the undersecretary of defense. Also joining us is claire caroma from the Defense
Why is kenya important this african country is conducting yet another population count its outcome is expected to shift political boundaries and shape elections but in a country divided along ethnic and tribal lines what does that mean this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. Governments has been holding a historic census over the weekend more than 160000 people would you ploy to collect data from its population of about 50000000 vets process has proven to be a challenge since millions of kenyans live in slums with no official address millions more nomadic herders who cross into neighboring countries regularly. Kenyas government is conducting a census for the 6th time happens every 10 years and the result may be significant for several reasons state resources are allocated to each district according to population higher numbers of people means more money from the Central Government in the last census 10 years ago there were allegations of data rigging this time police sa
Government can formulate policy is can know how to unlock a look at resources it is not necessary and in fact it is forbidden by law for the government to use this to directly identify people or to directly target individuals that is actually would be completely illegal by the statistics law that could be mentioned before. I think its also important for us to recall that theres a context here that the government itself has in previous times collected peoples data and then utilize it for the proper sees that it has and it was not intended so for example in the run up 227000 elections when people being asked to register. To vote in citing cases that information was taken was combined with information a government already has about mobile phone users because of go to register your same kind of it only get one and then they use that to try and push up. Out. People registering for the vote. In particular regions where they wanted particular candidates to win you know and even in especially
Another program for unique identity i mean digital and parametric i didnt of identification all this data was collected there was no there is more Data Protection framework so it seems like there is no law theres more gentlemen we can mess by the government to protect the rights of privacy you to uphold the constitution which which means that right to privacy. Every day is that the government is not willing. Despite all the assurances. Jonathan were talking about a country that was marred by violence to 1007 was a clear example of the violence that erupted in the country because of the hears differences over the Political Landscape when you conduct a survey or a census in a country like kenny Adult Children the risk of further stoking that sentiment there has prevailed in the past yes the thought risk i mean i recall the previous answer got so scared i think of 999 i mean it nearly sparked so violence and i recall the result of a source where not even released so i mean the government