our guest is douglas gansler, maryland attorney general and president of the national association of attorneys general. >> host: well, doug gansler is attorney general of the state of maryland. he is also the new president of the national association of attorneys general, and he is our guest this week on "the communicators." general gansler, your presidency of the naag, you chose online privacy as the issue you wanted to stress. why did you choose that? >> guest: each year the new president of naag has a presidential initiative, so rob mckenna of washington state was our president last year. he picked human trafficking, a great issue, obviously, underexposed, and it's important to expose the other 49 attorneys general to the issue. i thought privacy on the internet was a critical issue as a bipartisan issue, and it effects everybody. everybody, for the most part, is going to be on the internet whether at their home, at the library or at work, and they're going to be buying and purchasing and things and being susceptible to having privacy rights infringed. we don't look at it as havin

. >> and if you go to the website of douglas gansler, you will find all sorts of affirmation and resourcesor parents of children under 18. >> and probably one, opening up their six children 13 and gender. how do you think -- will that make the bullying situation worse? what is your take on that? >> well, as i moned to my actually spent an enormous amount of time talking to facebook about this very issue and what makes sense and sort of the argument. most people think that kids under 13 not to be out in the streets playing kick the can. and you would rather not have kids sit in on the screens all day. so that said, there are 7 million kids on their and growing, so the question is how to protect them, how to make sure that it is a case that they are on their and the parameters under which they operate. enhance the amount of cyber bullying that goes on? probably. but that is why we want to make sure that there are protections built in in that you're able to -- there are avenues to report. and that is what parents -- the predator stuff, parents are going to have to educate their kids. somethin