Information & Ethics committee  An original seed of corruption in this whole problem is the concept of micro-targeting. There is something to be said for having an Internet and index and aggregated sources and all that stuff that is useful for looking things up. We've always had phone books and things of that n

Information & Ethics committee  Yes, I would caution against allowing the segmented siloed databases to talk to each other. If you need data, get it from the person the data belongs to, because if the databases can talk to each other, the data doesn't really belong to that individual citizen; they're just an op

Information & Ethics committee  I think that if you mix and match administrators, that's basically the same thing as mixing and matching the databases. The administrators are just human, and humans want to eliminate work and make things as simple as possible, so that's where corners get cut.

Information & Ethics committee  I think the banking idea is not a bad one. That is a highly regulated industry accustomed to things such as very intense audits, keeping paper trails, and doing everything by the book—hopefully. I think they are definitely a good industry to lean on; however, I would be very, ver

Information & Ethics committee  The problem with that model is that it only takes one little defect in the armour to ruin the whole thing. Day in and day out for the past few years, I have been hunting down data breaches. I found quite a few and every single company's website that's involved in these data breac

Information & Ethics committee  Compare that to the claims of the Indian government with the Aadhaar database. They have have made similar claims for that database, yet on several occasions, it's been proven that they have had massive data breaches, both in the access portal and in the basic encoding system of

Information & Ethics committee  Hello. It is a pleasure to appear once again before the committee. I've always enjoyed speaking with you, and feel that I can bring a lot to the table. I reviewed the previous meetings' recordings for this specific subcommittee, talking about data and privacy along the pathway o

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  I did view Mr. Nix's testimony yesterday. I had to take a few breaks to get some work done and attend a few conferences and stuff, but I did substantially view his testimony. As to the first person you mentioned, I believe I read some of the coverage, but I don't have any specia

Information & Ethics committee  Yes. We, you, each of the committees, are scratching the surface. It is my firm belief that much more will be uncovered.

Information & Ethics committee  Sounds good.

Information & Ethics committee  I am glad Facebook seems to be [Technical difficulty—Editor] in a good direction. I am not at all confident the infection has been totally removed. There are likely to be more apps found that are simply doing a sort of reputation laundering in that it's the same bad app under a d

Information & Ethics committee  Any company that is driven by profit, which is not inherently a bad thing, is going to have an incentive to maximize that profit for their shareholders. Some would even say they have a duty to do so. Advertising and doing deep profiling and selling data are ways to maximize those

Information & Ethics committee  I want to be clear that I am not an expert on international espionage by any stretch of the imagination. For the indicators that would show activity like what Mr. Comey has described, you probably are better off speaking to an expert in that field. I can speak very clearly to a

Information & Ethics committee  Okay. I think I understand what you're getting at. One of the original things that caught my eye when I visited the aggregateiq.com website for the first time—I didn't know who they were—was that they seemed to be in the same business, industry, or field as Cambridge Analytica.