"If we don't adopt privacy regulation like the European Union, then in a sense we are shut out of their market."
"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."
"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 ..."
"I am deeply concerned that this committee is turning into the 'no regulation committee.'"
"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?"