Bob Goodlatte: “Thank you for being here and for your testimony.”

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

I think the more choices the consumer has in terms of how they can control or access their information...

I think there are a number of circumstances, particularly when civil rights, religious organizations, political campaigns, and other important things are being involved in surveillance, that there ought to be somebody not representing the…

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.