Richard Blumenthal

Well, we look forward to the package, and to the package that you will be receiving in hopefully a very short time.

I want to thank all of you again for being here and for your very, very useful contribution to this hearing.

If it was not illegal, do you not agree it should be?

Why would the company then submit a patent application for the process--that very process that it denies having used?

And, in fact, this personal data and the interception and downloading of this personal data is contemplated, in fact, by a patent application that has been submitted by Google to both the U.S. Patent Office and internationally, does it not?

And why not also require remedies in the case of a breach where that kind of accountability is imposed, for example, insurance or credit freezes, credit monitoring, as a matter of law, so that what is increasingly becoming standard…

Computer industry insiders have solutions to many cyber security problems, but the incentives to adopt them are weak.

The FTC statutes that prohibit unfair and deceptive practices simply do not provide the kind of targeted enforcement opportunity that I think is absolutely necessary.

And would you agree that collection of this data violates privacy rights and that it may, in fact, be illegal?

Are you aware that this process may have been used in the Street View program to collect private confidential information and use it to construct the wireless network route?

I want to focus on really the very broad area or issue of trust that Mr. Davidson raised.

I think that anything the Congress can do, I think, to protect kids in particular in this space is a worthy effort.

I strongly support that requirement. I think it is a basic, fundamental protection.

I hope that we are all on the same side of this cause, because right now what we face, in my view, is literally a Wild West so far as the Internet is concerned.

Well, in fact, the payload information would be extremely valuable in constructing this wireless network map, would it not?

As with any kind of liability or accountability, legal responsibility, there is a duty of care, and that duty of care can impose reasonable measures that common sense or technology would provide the means to do.

I want to thank our witnesses for being here, also Apple and Google and the consultants that we have, in this profoundly important hearing.

I have asked for an investigation into the hacking that has occurred now reportedly affecting another 25 million consumers.

I would welcome an opportunity to sit with you and key members of your staff on this subject.

Clearly, transparency is paramount, but through transparency, if it is unbalanced, that is, if it is only Massachusetts that stands alone, then device manufacturers tend to move elsewhere.

I want to thank all of you for your testimony and come back to the comment that Dr. Resnic made.

The one thing that I am concerned about with ever-increasing stringency of relationships... is the potential loss for education.

Requiring beneficiaries to pay more to be able to speak to a pharmacist about how to properly take their medication... is, I believe, inappropriate.

Thank you, Senator Webb.

I think it serves the national interest.