and there's those more sectorial. they do not track legislation, which aims to set up a system where people could choose not to be tracked and would have to respect that request. it's also location privacy bills that try to limit the automatic transmission of location from cell phones. so there are road should bills. i haven't seen huge progress with any of them. but that might have to do more with what the election cycle and with those bills and cycle. >> host: this is "the communicators" and we are talking with julia angwin come a senior technology editor with "the wall street journal." she is also the author of the book, "stealing myspace: the battle to control the most popular website in america." that came out from random house in 2009. she is a pulitzer prize winner in 2003 as part of "the wall street journal" team and explanatory reporting. she is an illinois native and university of chicago and columbia university graduate. trans three back to the medical records issues. for years we've been hearing about the

there are several other bills that are a little more sectorial.there is one that tracks legislation which aims to set up the system where people can choose not to be tracked and then companies doing tracking would have to respect that. it's also location privacy bills that try to let that limit the transition from small firms so there are a bunch of bills i haven't seen huge progress with them this year but that might have to do with the election cycle. horse to this is the committee kidder's on c-span and we are talking with julia angwin a senior technology editor with the "wall street journal." she is also the author of the book stealing lice based the battle to control the most popular web site in america that cannot from random house and to those a point. she's a pulitzer prize winner in 2003 as a part of "the wall street journal" team in the explanatory reporting she is an illinois native at the university of chicago and columbia university graduate. julia angwin, back to the medical records issues. for years we have been hearing about the ne