Bob Goodlatte: “Civil asset forfeiture is a useful law enforcement tool, but one that needs to be carefully monitored.”

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

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.

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.