What weve realized is we can try very hard to keep lead of the hackers but what we need to do is think about how we minimize the need for customers to put their private information on to web sites. Right now there are legal prohibitions from the private sector what we want to do is allow those barriers to be removed so that you could share information on threat signatures very narrowly defined so very technical type of information. But for example of the various act that is have taken place, if we could broadly share that information then when one hack occurs one place hopefully at Network Speed we can widely share that vulnerability and so more broadly protect everyone. Tonight at 8 00 eastern. On thursday members of the house agriculture subcommittee heard testimony from federal and state agriculture officials on their agencys response to the 20142015 flu outbreak that killed an estimated 48 million edible fowl in the u. S. The witnesses said an outbreak could be as bad or worse than
County, kent counties all see isolated thunderstorms moving through. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning x extended until 6 45 p. M. Chester county, montgomery county, philadelphia county. Moving from the northwest to the southeast. Lets zoom in closer. Were seeing lots of lightning strikes. Be mindful of that if youre in norr norristown, glennside, lots of lightning. Philadelphia, going to start to see lightning heading our way soon enough. Stronger storms, springfield also seeing heavier downpours. Also seeing hail returns as well. Radar right now locally here, the northwest corner, we are seeing some, again, heavier thunderstorms. So, i want to go ahead and zoom on out because i do want to show you the storms as they approach our area, our neighborhoods. Trenton expect some thunderstorms at about 6 44 p. M. Middletown, 7 18 p. M. In around the metro area, 6 28 p. M. Toms river, expect rumbling and thunderstorms. Some could be very strong. Approximately 7 30, 8 00 p. M. Coming up in just a
Lot of things. Host when you look at it they how much time do you focus on the fcc, how much time do you focus on congress and other agencies . Good question. Depends on what is going on. Sometimes we spend a lot of time on issues of state, there is a lot going on at the fcc, congress when it is in session. Depends what the issues are. Host what are the major issues facing verizon . Guest spectrum is a big issue for us. We are very focused on strategy. As a company we committed to be the first us company to rule out 5g, a new iteration of wireless technology, we are poised to a wave of innovation of 5g. We have a commercial pilot, commercial product. In order to do that we are able to roll it out. That is something we spend a lot of time on at the fcc and chairman wheeler announced the fcc will vote on an order in july and open up us and the rest of the industry to rollout 5g very quickly. Host can you give us a status report . Guest the incentive . That i cannot i cant because there a
Verizon have in place to protect the information you get from consumers and customers and how is that information used . Guest that is a good question. We have a Privacy Policy in place that covers how we use customer information. The whole list of different issues. And a whole gamut especially. The line drawing at the fcc is exercising is trying to figure out where do we give customers notice and opt out. We have had to make those calls over the years. We spend a lot of time on privacy. A chief privacy officer reports to me. We spend a lot of time on that. Very important to the company. We have a lot of different consumers and we have a policy we post on our website. We give customers separate notices. When they change the policy. There is a lot of information we are providing to customers and trying to make clear how their information is used, how it is collected and what we do with it. Host do customers read the long, privacy forms . Guest they do. We spend a lot of time explaining
Have some legal responsibilities, antitrust, privacy. So how much time do you focus a lot of issues with a lot going on at the state, at the fcc. Congress when its in session. It depends on the issues and whats hot at the moment. What are some of the major issues facing verizon . Spectrum is always a big issue for us. Right now were very focused on 5g. As a company weve committed to be the first u. S. Company to roll out 5g. And 5g is essentially a new iteration of wireless technology. And now 4g l. T. E. The whole new wave of innovation commusing 5g. Weve committed to a commercial pilot and product in 2017. To do that we need spectrum to roll it out. That is actually something weve spent a lot of time on at the fcc. Chairman wheeler just last week actually announced that the fcc is going to vote on an order in july to open up a huge block of spectrum to enable us and the rest of the industry to roll out 5g very quickly. You mentioned the auctions. They began last march. Can you give u