mr. goldstein. and thank you all for your. miss hanson and miss rich, your agencies have already done important work to combat gps stalking and cyber stalking, but i want to press you to do more. i want to challenge you to investigate and shut down these smart phone stalking apps. they are tens of thousands of people every year. they market themselves directly and brazenly to stalkers and they're easily available on the internet. my bill will give you even more tools to go after these guys, but will you pledge to me today that you will use all of your existing tools to investigate and shut down these apps? >> yes, i will, within my powers. we do have a commission that needs to approve things, but i run the bureau of consumer protection. i will note that we did bring a case against a similar service called remote spy. we litigated a case against them that was providing this very same type of service to spy on people and we obtained a strong order against the company and we can use similar tools to pursue these types of stalking

mr. goldstein. >> thank you, good afternoon, mr. chairman, ranking member flake, members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to be here this afternoon and provide testimony on consumers' location data. smartphones and in-car navigation systems give consumers access to useful location-based services. >> okay, sorry. i'm sorry. >> he actually sounded very good. very sonorous. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> is sonorous good? >> okay, go ahead, sorry you were interrupted by ms. rich. [ laughter ] >> quite all right. however, questions about privacy can arise if companies use or share location data without their knowledge. several agencies have responsibility to address consumers' privacy issues, including the ftc, which has authority to take enforcement actions against unfair or deceptive acts, and the ntia, which advises the president on telecommunications information policy issues. my testimony addresses, one, companies' use and sharing of location data. two, consumers' location privacy risks. and three, actions taken b

mr. goldstein. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here. smartphones and in car navigation systems give consumers access to location-based services. >> he actually sounded very good. [laughter] i'm sorry you were interrupted. [laughter] canuestions about privacy arise as companies use or share consumer location data without their knowledge. several agencies have responsibilities to address privacy issues, including the ftc. and the tia -- ntia, which advises the president. companies use and sharing consumers location data, consumers location privacy risks, and actions taken by selected companies and federal agencies to protect privacy. 14 mobile industry companies and ,0 in car navigation providers including mobile carriers and auto manufacturers, collect location data and users share them. applicationers and developers use location data to provide social networking services that are linked to locations. in car navigation services use location data to provide services. be used data can also and shared to enhance the functionality of service

mr. goldstein. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here. smartphones and in car navigation systems give consumers access to location-based services. >> he actually sounded very good. [laughter] i'm sorry you were interrupted. [laughter] canuestions about privacy arise as companies use or share consumer location data without their knowledge. several agencies have responsibilities to address privacy issues, including the ftc. and the tia -- ntia, which advises the president. companies use and sharing consumers location data, consumers location privacy risks, and actions taken by selected companies and federal agencies to protect privacy. 14 mobile industry companies and ,0 in car navigation providers including mobile carriers and auto manufacturers, collect location data and users share them. applicationers and developers use location data to provide social networking services that are linked to locations. in car navigation services use location data to provide services. be used data can also and shared to enhance the functionality of service

mr. pacheco the assistant and i'm cynthia goldstein, the executive director. we are joined by the city department sthav cases before the board. scott sanchez is here, he's the zoning administrator and representing the planning department and planning commission. joseph duffy is here. perfect timing. city and building inspector representing building inspection and john is here manager of the public works bureau of street use and mapping. mr. pacheco at this time if you would go over the meeting guidelines and conduct the swear in process. the clerk requires that you turn off all cell phones. appellants have seven 7 minutes for their cases and 3 minutes for rebut amounts people affiliated must include their comments in the three 3 minutes period. members who are not affiliated have up to three 3 minutes to address the board and no rebuttals. to assist the board in the accurate representation of minutes, members of the board are asked but not required to submit a speaker card. speaker cards are available. if you have questions about requesting a rehearing, board

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the controls is legal assistant and i'm cynthia goldstein absent is the board president commissioner president lazarus and we have cases before the board mr. sanchez represents the planning commission and we will be joined by mr. duffey representing the building inspection and the public works of street use and mapping mr. pa check connect the swearing in process. please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices please carry on conversations in the hallway permit holder and department representatives each have 7 minutes to present their cases and people affiliated with those parties must include their comments within the 7 minutes and people not affiliated with the parties have up to 7 minutes to address the board but inform rebuttals to assist the board members of the public are asked but not required to submit a speaker card or business card when you come up to the podium and speaker cards are pencils are available and the board welcomes our comments and there are customer survey forms on the left side of the podium if you have questions board sweltered please speak to the bo

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