G. K. Butterfield

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Mr. Speaker, across the country, Republican-led legislatures are pushing and passing laws that will suppress minority and elderly voters in the coming election. Under the guise of ``eliminating voter…

Even more concerning is that the data-gathering industry has developed ways to marry online data with offline data.

Well, what about if I subscribe to voice over IP service?

It is vitally important that American's have reasonable protections for the personal information held and sold by the data-gathering industry.

Let me thank the two chairmen for holding today's joint hearing on Internet privacy.

We are all weary of duplicative regulation. On the other hand, we don't want gaps in consumer protection.

Do you support data security or privacy legislation that could overlap with existing sector-specific regulation?

All calls for privacy legislation may be pointless if such legislation is limited to a select group of data collectors.

What is worse is that the top 50 Web sites directed at children placed substantially more tracking files on visitors' computers than general audience Web sites.

Should those who provide dump pipes that sometimes carry innocuous documents and that sometimes carry sensitive documents also be subject to some minimum security requirements for the data that moves along those pipes?

I am deeply concerned that this committee is turning into the 'no regulation committee.'

It appears that American consumers have no free market method of showing disapproval if they feel their personal information is being misused.

That is a very important distinction, and I thank the chairman for making that comment.

However, this draft also removes key consumer protection provisions that weaken the bill and make it less effective.

And what about the language that speaks to impeding innovation? I don't know how you define that.

Do you believe notification to consumers should also be required for breaches involving this kind of information?

The Republican discussion draft, like H.R. 2221 before it, provides the FTC, your commission, with the ability to modify the definition of personal information.

The consequences of this change are quite significant.

Information brokers possess huge data profiles on a staggering number of Americans, nearly all of whom do no business with these brokers.

The Republican discussion draft makes a change from H.R. 2221 to the definition of personal information.

I rise this morning to pay tribute to a lifelong friend, the Reverend Dr. Dorothy Sharpe Johnson, an accomplished pastor, educator and author who passed from labor to reward on 31 May 2011 after a long illness, a long illness that did not…

Can you please tell me a little bit more about what that means, that the employee's login credentials were compromised?

Thank you. My time has expired.

Is it true that user passwords were hashed and not encrypted? Is that true?

Well, why don't you use any type of encryption in your procedures?