My name is mark trumbull, economy editor of the Christian Science monitor. Welcome to our guests. Todays guest is liz schuler of the aflcio. She is the president of the Labor Federation and we are very glad to have you with us again as another Labor Day Weekend rolls around. A little background, president schuler grew up in a union household. Her father was a power lineman and longtime member of the electrical workers local 125 at Portland General Electric in oregon. Her mother worked in the companys service and design department. Ms. Schuler attended the university of oregon and i might insert my own go ducks here, since that is the alma mater of my fatherinlaw. During college, ms. Schuler worked summers at the electric company. I would say her life since then is testament that there can be a future for people who earn journalism degrees. After graduation, she returned to Portland General Electric to organize workers who were in nonunionized, clerical roles, like her mother. She then
Usable. A technique called template protection can ensure that one system biometric information is encrypted such that it cannot be read by another system for example. Someones image obtained from system at a doctor or Psychiatrist Office cannot be linked to the workplace Identity Verification system. Authorities are already working to improve Privacy Protection technologies. The american competes act contains a number of provisions that will future proof the governments definitions and standards for biometric Identification Systems and invest in privacy enhancing technologies. I look forward to hearing from our witnesses as biometrics become more prevalent in our daily lives. The timing of our discussion today is notable. The Supreme Court recently substantially weakened the right to privacy in their overturning of roe v. Wade. Third parties may try to access biometric information to collect the bounties now being offered by some states to enforce their new laws. I watch observed that
Next, officials testifying on the use of biometrics and its impact on privacy they are asked about the use of facial Recognition Technology and privacy risks. The hearing before house subcommittee on investigations and oversight is just under an hour and a half today our focus will be on how Technological Solutions can secure our privacy while allowing us to enjoy the benefits of biometric tools. Biometric privacy enhancing technologies can and should be implemented, along with Biometric Technologies, so called beach pads, the socalled beat pads could be implemented at the point of capture, improving the precision of collection tools to ensure they are not picking up features that are not necessary for use. They can insert, for example, obfuscations on the data collected, degrading the quality of the information, or introducing statistical noise so the biometric data is less usable for unintended uses. The technique called a template protection can ensure that one systems biometric inf
To be honest we dont actually know the answer to that question and ive studied the russian statistics very carefully and they just looked fishy. I have not done tracking down exactly how they managed to reduce their recorded emissions by a factor of eight. It is suspicious. But the real answer is we need to be measuring in both countries and we talked about aircraft. We talked about continuous monitoring. Theres satellites. If the United States does it other countries will start to do it as well. The United States doesnt. I think thats what i wanted to get. Why would we think that . Why would increasing our own regulations encourage the russians who are clearly not our friends, why would that encourage them to care about the environment . Russia is a tough case. But theyre the biggest one when were talking about gas. Thats right. We have to basically show that we are doing it right and the European Union and the other buyers they determine whose data is more credible. Is it the measure
Me, is really amazing. You know, its the growth of these sort of, you know, little companies that grew to be bigger companies, and these companies that are now like middlemen that help authors decide which book designer to use, which editor to use, and so theres a number of those companies. I think a lot of people who a lot of traditional people who lost jobs in the economic turn down found new life with selfpublishing because now they are catering to that segment of the industry, and its growing. They have a need. According to an october 2013 report, the bib graphic Information Management company, 391,000 selfpublished titles were created in 2012, 40 of which were electronic books, selfpublished titles jumped 22 between 2007 and 2012. Industry leaders include create space, a greater than 33,000 increase in titles over a fiveyear period. Smash words, which has become number two in the industry in four years, and lou s, a greater than 800 increase since 2007. Booktv spoke to diane, the