But because those who oppose privacy legislation have touted it as their rationale for opposition, I want to summarize what we know.

Our purpose was to relieve unfair and costly burdens imposed on American businesses, while still maintaining critically important consumer safeguards.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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?

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