. >> let me go to althea.ell us where you are from, and given the posture of the couple you are working with and the place in the industry, how much do these issues of surveillance whether in relation to the government -- i am trying to figure out what sort of request the government would make of sb -- we need to know where that scarf came from! [laughter] on maybe the corporate surveillance side that bruce was rather incendiaryly striking the tender on, how much are you concerned about user right with the end the commerce that you facilitate? >> i am with sc, and online marketplace, and for us the government surveillance issue is not as you implied much of an issue, we just do not have government knocking on our door all that often, which is great. it lets us not worry about that as much as up on the user privacy peace, for us it is really a matter of building and maintaining trust with our user base, so when we are making decisions about how to use data internally, we just got check ourselves. if i knew that

certainly stacked up here altheas tail lights are trying to go past the accident on seminary road. police are still on the scene with that. elsewhere, sky 9 is over a water main break in prince george's county. mentioned this earlier in the morning but here take a look at this rather. this is maryland 450 and annapolis road at church road closed down for the repair here. mike andrea? >>> thank you tranice. today d.c. lawmakers will probably get an earful from members of the public advocacy group public citizens. they're calling on the d.c. council to quote pull the plug on a exelon pepco merger. >> today's hearing coming a day after the report from the ohio based think tank which says the merger would have a negative impact on the city and its residents. >> reporter: delia goncalves is live outside the buildson building the site of today's hearing. good morning. >> reporter: good morning and that study is what they needed. that's the fuel behind the argument that a lot of folks will make today at city council. they will talk to city council members and urge them to ditch this deal

. >> let me go to althea. tell us where you are from, and given the posture of the couple you are working with and the place in the industry, how much do these issues of surveillance, whether in relation to the government -- i am trying to figure out what sort of request the government would make of etsy -- we need to know where that scarf came from! [laughter] on maybe the corporate surveillance side that bruce was rather incendiary, striking the tinder on -- how much are you concerned about user rights within the commerce that you facilitate? >> i am with etsy, an online marketplace, and for us the government surveillance issue is not as you implied much of an issue, we just do not have government knocking on our door all that often, which is great. it lets us not worry about that as much as up on the user privacy peace, for us it is really a matter of building and maintaining trust with our user base, so when we are making decisions about how to use data internally, we just got check ourselves. if i knew th

. >> althea, did you want -- >> i just wanted to jump on the sort of point about educating the work force say that i think that it's true that these technologies are both disrupting the labor market and creating new opportunities. we found that 42% of our sells sold for the first time so that half of our folks who wouldn't have started businesses otherwise. but i think it's more than sort of the stem education, which is important but build fewer jobs i think, than sort of building out some of the work-around entrepreneurship and preparing folks for the new and changing economy, chris not the result of technology alone. the economy has been changing for a long time towards more flexible work self-employment, all of these things, and how do we help prepare sort of the workers that have been displaced for that new world outfield informal entrepreneurship that is a big question that doesn't fall just to the tech companies but policymakers more broadly. >> just have to say something about the stem comment because right down the street, at harvard law you have mr. tiedle bermuda who came out wi

. >> one thing i would add is that may be creepy to althea but i would love it if every time i walked into starbucks my cup of coffee was ready and i did not have to wait in line. that is where the user choosing to put that app on his phone -- >> people are coming in and grabbing stuff. if you are a third party in 2014 looking at this, what is going on? if we rfid money, it is like pushing the grocery cart and it adds up your stuff because it is tagged. you could grab buckets of money in the bank left out in the lobby. you just walk out the door and it would check you out. it would be, ok, $272. >> why would you need money at that point? >> so you could save walking into a bank. >> you may not want to try that in 2014. >> i think it speaks back to the generational shift and societal tolerance for those issues. remember the seamless sharing apps three or four years ago which i loved. they would seamlessly share after one-time authorization your netflix viewing. by and large, users got freaked out by that and they deemphasized that. >> you have young people walking in and grabbing a cof