ntia is the principal adviser to the president on telecommunications and information policy issues. we're not a regulatory agency, that's the province of the federal communications commission. but we do work on internet policy, broadband spectrum, now public safety is a big part of our portfolio. so we cover a wide variety of telecommunications, internet information topics. >> host: well, and i know you're contained within the commerce department, correct? >> guest: that's correct. >> host: let's start with the internet domain, the icann issue. something that you're working on right now is who should control, who should organize the internet domain names. and there seems to be some disagreement between congress and the administration on this. >> guest: well, it's a little more nuanced than the way you described it. in fact, the responsibility for overseeing the domain name system has been icann's responsibility going back to 1998. at that time the administration, the clinton administration determined that they wanted to move the operation, the domain name system out of the federal g

. -- ntia is working on and that's spectrum. sit fair to say they've requested an inventory of all available spectrum that may be available for the option center coming up? >> we've always had a list of candidate fans to be evaluated in terms of making more spectrum available for consumer services. i think what you may be referring to is an announcement we made several weeks ago of a new database we've put up online to allow anyone to come online and look at all federal bands and see information in terms of who's using that band, how it's being used and that sort of thing. it's our fortunate to put more information in front of the community but that's parallel to the specific detailed an itic work we do on specific bands we've already identified. back when the president first issued his direction to us to find 500 meg hertz of spectrum to reallocate to commercial eulls. at that time we found about 2,000 meg hertz of candidate bands to look at and we're still working our way through those. so far we've identified about 405 megahe

and talked about the three really institutions that have responsibility for that, the ntia, the fcc andcongress. i'm going to ask you for our audience very briefly to give a report card on how you think those three institutions are doing and why it's so important. >> guest: so thanks for the question. let me answer those in the reverse way. the reason it's so important is that spectrum is just a fundamental input for all of this investment and innovation that's going on in the industry. as we all know from our personal lives, we're all carrying at this point probably multiple wireless devices. it's what we use for our work, for our play. and those devices require spectrum. they require spectrum, more and more of the airwaves to connect up and to communicate. so it's necessary that we find ways to make more and more spectrum available to continue this investment and innovation. as far as how we're doing in the different institutions, i think that all three of these government entities that you mentioned are doing a good job within the constraints within which they operate. we do have som

and the tia -- ntia, which advises the president. companies use and sharing consumers location data, consumers location privacy risks, and actions taken by selected companies and federal agencies to protect privacy. 14 mobile industry companies and ,0 in car navigation providers including mobile carriers and auto manufacturers, collect location data and users share them. applicationers and developers use location data to provide social networking services that are linked to locations. in car navigation services use location data to provide services. be used data can also and shared to enhance the functionality of services, such as search engines, to make search results more relevant. consumers can benefit from location-based services, their privacy may be at risk when companies collect and share location data. in both our reports, we found that when consumers are unaware ,hat location data is shared they may be unable to judge third parties. can create detailed profiles of individual behavior, including habits, preferences, and roots

and the tia -- ntia, which advises the president. companies use and sharing consumers location data, consumers location privacy risks, and actions taken by selected companies and federal agencies to protect privacy. 14 mobile industry companies and ,0 in car navigation providers including mobile carriers and auto manufacturers, collect location data and users share them. applicationers and developers use location data to provide social networking services that are linked to locations. in car navigation services use location data to provide services. be used data can also and shared to enhance the functionality of services, such as search engines, to make search results more relevant. consumers can benefit from location-based services, their privacy may be at risk when companies collect and share location data. in both our reports, we found that when consumers are unaware ,hat location data is shared they may be unable to judge third parties. can create detailed profiles of individual behavior, including habits, preferences, and roots

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for example, the department of commerce's ntia has brought stakeholders together to develop codes of conduct for industry. but gao found this effort lacks specific goals, milestones and performance measures, making it unclear whether the effort would actually even address location privacy. additionally, in response to a recommendation gao's 2012 report, the ftc issued guidance in 2013 toip form companies of the commission's views on the appropriate actions mobile industry companies should take to disclose their privacy practices and obtain consumers' consent. gao made recommendations to enhars consumer protections in 2012. gao recommended for example ntia develop goals and pile steins and measures for its stake holder initiative. gao will continue to monitor this effort in the future. mr. chairman, this concludes my oral statement. i'd be happy to respond to any comments. thank you. >> thank you, mr. goldstein. and thank you all for your testimony. ms. hanson and ms. rich, your agencies have already done important work to combat cyberstalking and gps stalking but i want to challenge

you will see you can go on the ntia web site to pull this down. previously unemployed people received job offers after receiving the job centers at public libraries. in michigan public computer facilities are estimated to save the users more than 160,000 hours per year for a time and in texas public computer centers including over 120 library locations have provided nearly 850,000 training hours to support digital literacy and enabling people to search for jobs and housing on line connect with the families and other countries in all the important uses the chairman wheeler referred to. we will be putting the blog up today in the case studies. we know there is more to be done and we know the needs of libraries. i read a statistic that 60% labor is reported they are the only source of free internet access in their communities and we have seen that image. the library is closed and the kids on the step looking at the wi-fi and people in the car with the heater going trying to connect. we can look at that as a glass half-full discouraging because the li

administrator of the ntia. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> next, a constitution about the global economic outlook from "the wall street journal"'s annual cfo network conference. panelists include the chair of the white house council of economic advisers and the world bank's chief economist. this is about 30 minutes. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. thanks to you both for being here. during the session we're going to ask for your participation on a couple of questions so, please, get ready for some morning calisthenics. beyond the painful, long recovery there's increasing concern that the long-term growth rate is slower than we thought. it averaged about 3%, now the imf is out with a report that says it will be 3%, and that's down from the 2.8% that they predicted just in april. what's going on, and is our future a bit darker than we thought? >> uh-huh. if you look at economic growth, we could look right where we are right at this moment, and we don't want to look in th

initiative administered and funded by the national information administration so thank you for the ntia for the opportunity. over the last four years in concert with a lot of the other work that all programs are doing throughout the country including broadband mapping and research we have been implementing the connected community engagement program and this is a robust grassroots effort to bring together local stakeholders around the idea of broad bend technology of small-scale, assess their local broadband landscape identify gaps in their susman and help them develop and actionable plan for filling in those gaps. over the last two years we have engaged with 27 communities across the state of michigan doubleday mount required by a federal grant and engage 1300 stakeholders in that process. team members on these local teams include chambers of commerce academic development corp. schools broadband providers and of course the libraries. we have seen first-hand through the connected program the critical role that libraries play in communities throughout the country. library service and acce

issue, including the ftc which has authority to take action against unfair deceptive acts and the ntia which advises the president on telecommunications issues. my testimony addresses company's use and sharing of data. two, consumers location privacy risks. and three, actions taken by agencies to protect consumers location data. our findings were as follows in two reports that we released over the last couple years. first, that 14 mobile companies and ten in-car navigation providers that goa examine inned the reports, including mobile carriers and auto manufacturers, collect location data and use or share them to improve consumer services. for example, mobile carriers and application developers use location data to provide social networking services to are linked to consumers location. in-car navigation use location data to provide services such as turn by turn directions, or roadside assistance. location data can also be used and shared to enhance the functionality of services such as search engines to make search results more relevant. second, while consumers can benefit from the loc

the other question, the adoption really a question that there has been a lot of ntia,of, whether it's at the next, states, pugh, many seems to be aere real consensus that there are a couple of barriers to adoption. or as having a computer smartphone. does a family have those? important.s there are, for whatever reason, a chunk of americans who believe the internet does not offer value to them and, you know, an with them isort important. there are a lot of programs for adoption. is considering helping to fund or create an erate program for broadbands so there is a lot going on that illustrates the adoption issue in america. >> so you're saying that the research is showing that the issue, some of it has to do to lack ofruser's appreciation or access to some or to smartptops phones but some of your answer indicates it is on us, as well, we're not getting to the end user in the way that we could be? areas itnly in rural is a challenge to build networks where there are very, very few that's where the availability gap would be. shortfall -- i'm looking for action steps to address this -- th

whether it's at ntia, the fcc, states, pew, many places. and there seems to be a real consensus that there are a couple of barriers to adoption. one is, you know, having a computer or a smartphone. does a family have those? education is important. there are, for whatever reason, a chunk of americans who believe the internet does not offer value to them. you know, an education effort with them is important. there are a lot of programs for adoption. the fcc is considering helping to fund or create an eray program for broadband adoption. there's a lot going on that recognizes what you're illustrating, that there is an adoption issue in america. >> you're saying research is showing that the issue, some of it has to do with the end users, the lack of appreciation or access to some of the -- to laptops or to smartphones. but then -- but some of your answer indicates that it is on us as well, that we're not getting it to the end user in the way that we could be. >> certainly in rural areas, it is a challenge to build networks where there are very,