Bob Goodlatte: “That is correct. Mr. Speaker, at this time, it is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr.…”

Right, but the sale of the information to the government puts the government in the picture as well and the Fourth Amendment is directed at the government not obtaining information without showing probable cause, without providing a…

The fact of the matter is this Committee has jurisdiction over this narrower focus regarding protecting the Fourth Amendment.

The more opportunities that the consumer has to decide for themselves whether or not they want to make certain information available to Google or other companies and control how Google might utilize that information, the better.

I think the PATRIOT Act went off track in not defining some of the areas that set parameters around government gathering data.