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Speaker 1: Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg Lab Brief, exploring

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Speaker 1: legal issues in the news and Today, Bloomberg La host

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Speaker 1: Joan Grasso and Greg Sture discuss a recent House vote

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Speaker 1: to stop certain f SEC Internet privacy protections. They speak

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Speaker 1: with Fred Campbell, former chief of the FCC's Wireless Bureau

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Speaker 1: and Director of Technology, and Katherine Sandoval, a professor at

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Speaker 1: Santa Clara University Law School. Katherine, just give me the

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Speaker 1: basic explanation of the state of the law right now.

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Speaker 1: So if I'm I'm on the Internet and I do

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Speaker 1: a search for something, how much privacy can I expect

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Speaker 1: in what I do? So the SEC rules that would

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Speaker 1: have increased protections in privacy had not fully gone into

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Speaker 1: effect because of the requirements of Federal Register publication, and

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Speaker 1: then there's which often results in the delay. So essentially,

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Speaker 1: under our current today privacy rules, actually consumer privacy rules

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Speaker 1: are very much up in the air, and that's this

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Speaker 1: FCC will would have addressed. It would have created basically

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Speaker 1: the obligation for the Internet service providers, the ones that

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Speaker 1: you use to get onto the Internet, UH to require

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Speaker 1: your consent before they could do things like sell your

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Speaker 1: search history and sell other personally identifying information up to

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Speaker 1: and including social security numbers. FRED. The bill seems to

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Speaker 1: view a consumer's data as property of the Internet providers.

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Speaker 1: How do the Republicans justify allowing Internet providers to sell

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Speaker 1: your personal information? Yeah? So, to be clear, I think

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Speaker 1: the congressional resolution was really about one issue, and that's

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Speaker 1: this opt in versus opt out. So the FTC regulated

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Speaker 1: both providers, that's Google, Yahoo and the like and I

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Speaker 1: s ps UH both under its privacy framework up until

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Speaker 1: you know, last year, and the QC hasn't we applied

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Speaker 1: and opt out approach. I think most people don't even

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Speaker 1: know how to opt out. What's the justification for this?

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Speaker 1: The main justification is stay honest and competitiveness. There are

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Speaker 1: companies out there, Google which currently collect third party web

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Speaker 1: browsing data through their double Click subsidiary. They do that

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Speaker 1: if you visit the New York Times, for example, which

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Speaker 1: has a relationship with double Click, Google can track which

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Speaker 1: articles the consumer reads on the New York Times when

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Speaker 1: it combines that data with its own user data. UH.

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Speaker 1: And it does this targeted at the I s p

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Speaker 1: s would like to compete in that market and having

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Speaker 1: a different set of requirements on that that makes it

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Speaker 1: harder for them to compete, and as Fred Campbell, former

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Speaker 1: chief of the FCCS Wireless Bureau and Director of Technology

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Speaker 1: and Catherine Senterval, a professor at Santa Clara University Law School,

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