daniel weisner leads this 40-minute discussion. >> welcome, everybody. thank you so much for coming during recess. i appreciate it. today we have a briefing by the white house on their proposal on privacy in the digital age called consumer data privacy in a networked world. we're very fortunate to have a deputy chief of technology at the white house here. his name is danny whitesfehr. this is part of a three-part privacy hearing we're doing on government professional poe als in this digital era. we had the director general of justice and european commissioner here to brief the congressional staff on their data directive, which has been in effect for the past a 15 years. they had an update proposal she briefed the staff on a few weeks ago. the european commission is proposing this update to the privacy regime and frankly many, many, many u.s. companies abide basically bit the framework established bit european commission because of the data flows across the atlantic. the second one is today's briefing. in a few weeks we hope to have julie brill staff on f