ms. packard? thank you. hello. >> i am adele fasick. i have been appointed by the league of women voters. i have work with them for 10 or 12 years. naturally, we are eager to encourage voting. professionally, i am in library educator. i specialize in children's and young adult materials. i am familiar with reading levels and what kind of matter is accessible. i enjoy working on the committee because i think it is important. we have a confusing ballot, year after year. it is important to have this as clear as possible for voters. chairperson kim: thank you. are there any questions? thank you very much. at this time, i will open up for public comment on this item. if you have any public comment, please step up to the microphone. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. colleagues, we have three applicants for exactly three seats. do we have a motion to move this forward? commissioner farrell: i would just like to say thank you for your service and things were coming before us today. i am happy to move this with recommendati

scott taylor, vice president of hewlett-packard, stuart pratt, presidency of consumer data industry association, ms. ioana rusu, consumers union, mr. tim schaaff, president of sony network entertainment international, and mr. thomas lenard, president and senior fellow of the technology policy institute. at's say it is 20 minutes the maximum. our purpose here will be with the time remaining to us, which is not yet determined. 20 minutes maximum for all five of you to give testimony. that is a challenge, but you are exceptionally bright and well educated people, so you should be able to meet it. we will start with you, mr. pratt. the questions will be submitted from the committee members to all of you. >> chairman rockefeller, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. my name is stuart pratt, -- >> we know that. get to the point. >> whether it is cut tourism efforts, locating a job that has been kidnapped, preventing a violent criminal from taking a job, or entering the soundness and safety of lending decisions, our software and analytical tools are critical