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It can't be a hundred people sitting in a Facebook office, trying to monitor 600 million conversations.
If we took a small amount of the time that any of these companies spend innovating products and started to think about how we protect our kids--and frankly, adults, but we are focused on kids, we think that would go a long way.
It is my general feeling that people who are 20, 21, 22 years old really don't have any social values at this point.
Now, COPPA has been a very effective tool to protect children's privacy online.
Since 2000, COPPA has been in effect. It prohibits companies from targeting children 12 years old or younger. It is widely disregarded.
I hear that so often in government. People have to put out rules. They have to put out regulations.
that act requires--you have to provide conspicuous notice on what personal information is being collected and how it is being used.
The Commission strongly supports the goals of Chairman Rockefeller's Do-Not-Track legislation.
If it becomes entirely the responsibility of the Federal Government, people won't like that.
I think using a mobile device has an expectation of privacy.
In S. 799, the Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights that Senator McCain and Senator Klobuchar and I have proposed, we propose rules based on fair information practice principles for all collectors of information.
The Commission supports the fundamental goals of this legislation--to provide transparency and consumer choice regarding tracking.
The companies before us today--Apple, Google, Facebook--I appreciate their being here.
I think the online privacy issue is not something of an unintended consequence. I think it is a basic American right.