today he has a different per sp spective on things as a result of some of the policies that were pursued in the aftermat h f the election. >> thank you. some may be wondering why the heck i'm here. thank you for listening in online. i thank you for joining us as well. i was telling rob that i did get the memo that you guys prefer the comments to be on the short side the only problem is someone who used to be an elected official short may not mean to me what it does to you. perhaps to you it means i talked to long already perhaps to me it means i have six minute to go. we'll try to create a happy medium around that. >> let me say where we are, i turned 45 years old, to which, i'm thankful for the gray hairs in the room for making me not the only old person in the room today. i turned 45 in october. in the early 80s president reagan had just come to power. heritage was kind of the only game in town when it came to smart, creative policy ideas and a lot of the thing that is president reagan did during the 1980s, a lot of the template for chan change, a lot of it came out of the advancement,

the kind of convergence that i'm looking at in full-terms of -- in terms of from a consumer per be spective, how are consumers being treated on these entities and what we should be thinking about in that context. >> host: commissioner julie brill, the ftc -- what's the status with the google privacy issue fight? >> guest: so we are, um, in the process of, actually, with respect to google, we have finalized the consent order that came out of google's efforts, first social media effort involving google buzz which people may remember was a couple of years ago. google, essentially, took consumers' information, their e-mail context and what not and populated this first social media with consumers' contact information. consumers never expected that. a lot of private information came out of that where consumers, you know, their most frequent e-mail contacts might have involved a potential employer, might have involved a patient if they were a doctor, all sorts of potential deep privacy concerns. we put google under an order that requires them to develop a broad privacy program that will cover, um,