let he flous dintroduce danny w in. prior to this, danny worked at mit and taught at mit and before that at the worldwide web consorti consortium, the governing body for web standard across the internet. before that he was a co-founder of the -- before that he was with the electronic front tear foundation. with that let me introduce danny whitesner. >>. [ applause ] . >> thank you, tim. thanks to everyone. let me add my appreciation to the co-chairs of the internet caucus. it's great to see many of you here. our colleagues from the hill, colleagues from the ftc, from different departments, from the press. it's certainly been a very broad policy suggestion we've had over the last couple of years since we came in as an administration. it was clear to us from the beginning we needed to take on these questions of consumer privacy protection. not on because of how important privacy is as an american value but also because many of our key initiatives, many of the priorities that we came in with as an administration, whether it