Al Franken

There is nothing corrupt about Minnesota.

Ronald Reagan raised taxes, didn't he?

That is because we were being plunged into debt. That is what was causing the deficit and that is why Ronald Reagan raised taxes twice.

If that is the choice we have to make, and the middle class and working class of this country has to make, in order to get more jobs you have to have lower wages, then we are all really in trouble, greater trouble than we have been over…

This is why we have kids----taking 6, 8 years to graduate college.

We are going to have to be smarter about it, I think, because we are in a global economy.

Would it be fair to say the middle class is under more pressure today than it has been in 60 years?

I know that carriers like AT&T and Verizon have really a tremendous advantage over everyone else.

I believe that is why Mr. Meena advertises his national map off of his website.

I am sure I am not the only one here who remembers when Ma Bell controlled how we communicated with each other.

I distinctly remember when I was a kid, every Sunday at exactly 9 a.m. in Minnesota, my grandmother would call from New York.

Google has a screen that contains a number of those, and it seems to work for you guys, right?

It sounds like opt out to me.

We still have to protect ourselves from Government abuses, and that is a big part of the digital privacy debate.

Thank you, Senator Whitehouse.

I think the people have a right to know who is getting their information and the right to decide how that information is shared and used.

To me, this Subcommittee is about addressing a fundamental shift that we have seen in the past 40 or 50 years in who has our information and what they are doing with it.

Your two companies run the biggest app markets in the world, and both of your companies say you care deeply about privacy.

consumers are hearing this a lot from both Apple and Google, and I think it is confusing

We need to think seriously about how to address this problem, and we need to address this problem now.

Would your companies be willing to commit to requiring apps in your stores to have a clear, understandable privacy policy?

But this is what Apple's CEO Steve Jobs said to the press: 'We build a crowdsourced data base of WiFi and cell tower hotspots, but those can be over 100 miles away from where you are. Those are not telling you anything about your location.'

When people talked about protecting their privacy, they talked about protecting it from the Government.

So the answer to my question is zero?

Thank you, Senator, and I want to thank Ms. Rich and Mr. Weinstein. Mr. Weinstein, good luck and congratulations with your new baby.