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consumer. we put rules in place that when you put credit cards in the back of yellow cabs, number one, you have to go through a process where they make sure that hackers cannot break into your credit card information and steel that information. number two, privacy concerns. these are two elements that are slightly involved but not completely involved in these rules and that is where agency should be focusing. the white house the ftc, and even senator franken have raised concerns about these issues but nobody to the state has acted upon regulating what type of data needs to be shared with the government. i believe these rules will pass and it is about leveling the playing field. the taxis are providing a lot of this information for years, why should it this group be exempt just because they're bringing lobbyists and. it makes no sense. emily: interesting you think that they will pass. matthew dowd the former chairman of the new york taxi commission. we will continue to follow the story. solar sail technology could one day hurdle humans at 47,000 miles an hour through space. it is still early day

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card networks, payment processors and, yes, by their federal government. consumers shouldn't be left to hope and pray their personal information will be safe every time they swipe their debit or credit card or enter their information online. they deserve pro teb. so today the committee will hear from representatives of organizations whose members constitute the major participants in the payment system. we welcome their expertise and insight. my hope is that this hearing affords members on both sides of the aisle an opportunity to better understand what security measures are currently am place to pre dent data breaches, how consumers are notified following a breach what times of emerging technologies will help reduce the frequency and severity of breaches and what steps are being taken by the merchant and financial services communities to address the problem and where additional federal legislation may be warranted. i further hope that the committee will engage in a taughtful and constructive dialogue on a bipartisan basis and in that regard i wish to thank chairman nothing bauer and the gentleman from te, mr. carney by starting this bipartisan dialogue off on the right foot by intro

but they are going to stay and persist before they start whipping out the credit cards and spending. >> the weakness in consumeras been idiosyncratic. individual names that have not performed because of earnings. but the big names, disney, amazon, starbucks, nike, home depot, these do not show signs of trouble. >> and speaking of not showing signs of trouble we did see yesterday in the xly a put seller out to september, the 69 strike. a bunch of those sold for roughly $1. so certainly that is saying basically they don't expect any sort of downside in the xyl, the consumer discretionary index any time soon. that's safe. when collecting premium, not a heck of a lot of premium, saying hey they are taking some of the risk off. the trade is on the side of the consumer. interest rates still low, good for the consumer. gas prices low. that's good for them. the question is real wages and what mike is talking about, hags real wages gotten better for the economy, has the consumer feeling better for themselves? that's what is needed. >> gas prices, jeffries had an interesting note out today pointing to the fact in a in th