He testifying on ways to counter the problem. Good morning, everyone. The subcommittee on Consumer Protection and commerce will now come to order. Member will begin with member statements and i will begin by recognizing myself for five minutes. Good morning, and thank you for joining us here today. Given what is going on in the world, its really impressive to see the turnout that is here today, and i welcome everyone. In the the two plus decade since the creation of the internet we have seen life for americans and families transformed in many positive ways. The internet provides new opportunities for commerce, education, information, and connecting people. However, a along with these many new opportunities we have seen new challenges as well. Bad actors are stalking the online marketplace, using deceptive techniques to influence consumers, deceptive designs to fool them are you okay . Dedeputy tee signs to fool them into giving away personal information, stealing their money, and engin
Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Right now we want to talk about the weather today. You say were in the clear this morning. We are. But it is cold and weve seen the teams in the north bay dip below freezing but because were expecting the rain in the next 24 hours, today is your day to get out there and make sure everything in the yard is secure for the high wind and youre ready for the rain. Right now storm ranger giving us the all clear but as we zoom out we see it apoaching the pacific northwestern coach and some of the rain reaching the north coast just to the bay, north of the bay area. Well see the rain moving into the north bay around midnight and then spreading into the rest of the bay area tomorrow morning. Mike said listen up if youre headed toward a bridge. And that is a lot people. Westbound across the bridges would be your commute direction. And looking toward the bay bridge west from oakland and we see the lanes are starting to fill in now. So i think there may h
December 10 meeting of 2019. Any additions or corrections . Ill move approval. President caen any Public Comment on the minutes of december 10 . All those in favor . Opposed . Motion carries. Next item, please. Item 4, general Public Comment, members of the public may address the commission on matters that are within the commissions jurisdiction and are not on todays agenda. President caen i have three speaker cards here. The first is dave warner. I dont think i can present this, but can i hand it out. You can put it on the overhead. Im dave warner. Im a palo alto resident. Im also a participant in the mayors water supply stakeholder group. Some of you know ive been speaking at your meetings for three years now, which is a terrific honor. The sfpuc is not sharing draws. Its more important than after as you face major decisions. Should we invest an additional 2 billion or more to develop Water Supplies and raise the rates accordingly to cover the costs . Should we implement rationing as
Next, a look at the spread of disinformation on social media and other platforms. The subcommittee hearing included a representative from facebook and other tech experts. Testifying on ways to counter the problem. Good morning everyone. The subcommittee on Consumer Protection and commerce will now come to order. We will begin with member statements and i will begin by recognizing myself for five minutes. Good morning and thank you for joining us here today. Given what is going on in the world. esentative czajkowski owski we have seen life for americans transformed in many positive ways. The internet provides new opportunities for commerce, education, information and connecting people. However, along with these many new opportunities, we have seen new challenges as well. Stocking thee online marketplace using deceptive techniques to influence the consumers with deceptive designs to fool them into giving away present information, stealing their otherand engineering unfair practices. The
Given what is going on in the world. esentative czajkowski owski we have seen life for americans transformed in many positive ways. The internet provides new opportunities for commerce, education, information and connecting people. However, along with these many new opportunities, we have seen new challenges as well. Stocking thee online marketplace using deceptive techniques to influence the consumers with deceptive designs to fool them into giving away present information, stealing their otherand engineering unfair practices. The federal trade Commission Works to protect americans from many unfair and deceptive practices. A lack of resources, authority and even a lack of will has left Many American simmers feeling helpless in this digital world. Adding to that feeling of helplessness, new technologies are increasing the scope and scale of the problem. Manipulation of video and otherterns technologies are hurting us indirect and indirect ways. Congress has unfortunately taking a laiss