congresswoman mary bono mack has said she will hold more hearings on that. there isn't a bill out there related to the privacy dealing with data breeches and intrusions into the company networks and private information being taken. that could move forward with that also been kind of -- there has been issues with that in the house, democrats don't like the bill that came out of the subcommittee. mary bono mack's subcommittee and they've tried to work through those issues in the senate they reach the legislation could get attached to a cybersecurity legislation, but that is the one area where we could see some movement on the privacy. >> yes. right now it's fair to see that we will have hearings and discussions that privacy is more of a recovery than a legislative issue at the moment. the federal trade commission is really enforcing the sort of serving as the defacto privacy standards to the government. we have seen settlements against both google and facebook regarding misrepresentations alleged misrepresentations in the privacy policy. the federal trade comm

in the house congresswoman mary bono mack has indicated she may hold more hearings on that. there is a bill out there dealing with data breaches and intrusions into companies' networks and private information being taken that could move forward, but that's also been -- there's been issues with that in the house. democrats don't like the bill that came out of mary bono mack's subcommittee, and they've been trying to work through some of those issues. in the senate, data breach legislation could get attached to cybersecurity legislation, but, you know, the one area where we could see some movement on privacy. >> guest: yes. right now i think it's fair to say we're going to see some hearings and discussion, but privacy is more a regulatory than a legislative issue at the moment. the federal trade commission is really enforcing de facto privacy standards. we've seen settlements against google and facebook regarding alleged misrepresentations of their privacy policies. the federal trade commission has put both under comprehensive privacy programs, they're going to be audited ever

mary bono mack's subcommittee. they've been trying to work through some of those issues. there's one area we could see movement on prief yaysy. >> right now i think it's fair to say we're going see hearings and discussion. but privacy is more of a regulatory than a legislative issue at the moment. the federal trade commission is enforcing -- they're serving as de facto privacy standards for the government. we've seen settlements between both google and facebook regarding alleged misrepresentations of their privacy policies. the federal trade commission has put both under comprehensive privacy programs. they're going to be audited every two years. and they've really served notice that this is what's going to happen. we're going to be watching what you do. we don't need a bill to step in. we'll use the f.t.c. so make sure you're not abusing consumers' information or putting it out there in ways people expect because the f.c.c. will regulate it. >> are telecommunications issues on the hill broken down by party, by industry? >> they're starting to take on a partisan tone in s