a good friend of moon and her husband -- mine and her husband, bill paxson, but she's, you know, as she's supposed to do since she's paid by them, e she has to represent their company and their product in the best possible light. and i have respect for that, but my job as a public servant and as the privacy caucus co-chairman is to point out some of the potential pitfalls of the uses that technology could result in. >> host: is there agreement amongst midwest of congress about the immediate for -- amongst most of congress about the need for -- >> guest: i think there's general agreement that we need stronger privacy protection. i don't think there's agreement on what that is. but conceptually, just the generic is there a needs for more privacy protection, i think both sides of the aisle would say yes to that. and on the republican side, it's much more apparent now than it ever has been. it comes up in our retreats when we're just brainstorming what are the issues. two or three years ago, certainly five or six years ago privacy wouldn't have made the top ten, and now it's one of the first