ms. rich. pam dixon. ms. dixon is the exive director at the world -- executive director at the world privacy forum. you're on. >> she's gloating. [laughter] >> chairman rockefeller, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to share what i've learned about the data broker industry today. i appreciate it very much. as a moderate in the privacy debate and in the privacy world, i have come to a troubling conclusion. the data broker industry as it is today does not have constraints and does not have shame. it will sell any information about any person regardless of sensitivity for 7.9 cents a nature which is the price of a list of rape suffererrers which was recently sold. lists of rape sufferers, victims of domestic violence, police officers' home addresses, people who suffer from genetic illnesses complete with names, home addresses, ethnicity, gender and many other factors. this is what's being sold and circulated today. it's a far cry from visiting a web site and seeing an ad. what it is is a sal

we heard from ms. dixon about generated about dementia sufferers, to payday loan responders, products that seem tailor-made for businesses seeking to take advantage. i hate that. i personally am revolted by that. i have seen it in the treatment of coal miners in their safety. i have seen in every aspect of life in the state where i come from and elsewhere. living abroad. i don't like it. i think it is our job as government to minimize that possibility and to bring out into some light was going on. if senator booker doesn't know that this is happening to him, he does now. and he doesn't like it. nailed mccaskill really something that could not be responded to. so we will continue on this track. i think it is serious and i think that it is the dark underside of american life in which people make a lot of money and cause a lot of people to thereforen more and have even lower self-esteem, which is not the america we want. this hearing is adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [caption

we heard from ms. dixonabout generated about dementia sufferers, to payday loan responders, products that seem tailor-made for businesses seeking to take advantage. i hate that. i personally am revolted by that. i have seen it in the treatment of coal miners in their safety. i have seen in every aspect of life in the state where i come from and elsewhere.