third will be ashkan soltani, said it will be barbara lawler, for intuit and last but not least will be chris calabrese from american council for the civil liberties union. so as we are getting set up here, and policy, water is getting poured and the charts are getting established just one moment and we will go ahead and call on mr. andersen whenever we are ready. so, mr. andersen, go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman and honorable members of the committee, my name is erich andersen with microsoft windows division. finton for inviting me to testify today about the state of online privacy. we applaud the leadership the committee has shown on this issue. i also want to endorse assistant secretary strickling's call for federal privacy legislation. legislation can be an important component of a multi prong approach to privacy but also includes technology, tools, industry initiatives and consumer education. at microsoft, consumer trust is vital to our business and privacy is a critical component to running and maintaining that trust. and all of our service offerings we striv

my name is barbara lawler.i ask that my full statement be put into the record do to time constraints. >> without objection. >> our mission is to improve people's financial lives so profoundly they cannot imagine going back to the old way of doing things. it is true, this mission that we approached the to current privacy debate. we are a neat corp. adhering to various regulatory data privacy regimes in the u.s., including financial and health-care privacy, and privacy of tax return information. additionally, we took over 50 million people to our products. these people entrust us with our -- their most sensitive data, their federal and state income tax return information, individual purchase transactions, bill payments, and health information. their business accounts, including increased employee payroll, accounts receivable, then a list, inventory, and other business data. as more technology solution to the clown, customers place more trust in us as we and other sensitive data. at into it, we develop data stewar

. - barbara lawler and i am the chief operator at intuit.i ask my statement be put into the record due to time constraints. >> without objection and will be. >> the mission is to improve people's financial lives both profoundly they cannot imagine going back to the old way of doing things. it is true for this mission we approach the current privacy debate. intuit izzie hillarycare corporation to their regulatory regimes in the u.s. including financial and health care privacy and privacy of tax return information. additionally we touch over 50 million people through the product. these people entrust us with the most sensitive data. the federal and state income tax return information, individual purchase transactions, bill payments and health information. business accounts including employee payroll, accounts receivable, vendors list, inventory and other business data. as more technology solutions move to the cloud customers place more trust in us as we handle the sensitive data. at intuit with default data storage principles that express how

third will be ashkan soltani, said it will be barbara lawler, for intuit and last but not least willbe chris calabrese from american council for the civil liberties union. so as we are getting set up here, and policy, water is getting poured and the charts are getting established just one moment and we will go ahead and call on mr. andersen whenever we are ready. so, mr. andersen, go ahead. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman and honorable members of the committee, my name is erich andersen with microsoft windows division. finton for inviting me to testify today about the state of online privacy. we applaud the leadership the committee has shown on this issue. i also want to endorse assistant secretary strickling's call for federal privacy legislation. legislation can be an important component of a multi prong approach to privacy but also includes technology, tools, industry initiatives and consumer education. at microsoft, consumer trust is vital to our business and privacy is a critical component to running and maintaining that trust. and all of our service offerings we strive