is that right, professor mcgevern? does this law prevent, and i'm talking about the vppa from integrating in to social networks even if the consumer wants them to? >> no. that is not right. the statute requires consent every time. but as i mentioned in my opening statement that can be done by simply saying here is a press when you press to play the movie. and right next so it, here is a button to both play and share. you can post, you just have to be asked every time you see a movie. online that seems easy to effectuate >> so it would be easy to say i can share. mr. wolfe talked about it would be really easy to disable the sharing but is there anything in the amendment that says how that would happen? i mean, could a online video company, one less scrupulous than netflix, just have it really hard? is there anything in the law that would prevent them from making it almost impossible to figure out how to disable it? >> so in the house bill the way it's set up now, it says, you could enable consent until you took it away.

professor mcgevern received his ba from nyu. finally i should add that he was a staffer for senator shumer, mark rode enburg, he chairs the american bar association committee on privacy and information protection, and has edited several privacy law textbooks prior to founding epic that is again, electric privacy information center, he was council to senator leahy where he advised the senator on the act we are considering today. he received his jd from stanford law school. christopher wolfe is the director of the privacy and information practice here in washington. and he also the founder and cochair of the future of privacy forum. he was the editor and lead author of the practicing law institutes first treatis on privacy law and has authored many publications on privacy. he received his jd from washington and lee university and his a.d.from boden college. thank you for all being here today and we will start with mr. heiman. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today to video privacy protection act. my name the