House Oversight And Investigations Subcommittee, Rayburn House Office Building, April 19, 2023 On Wednesday, April 19, 2023, the House Oversight And Investigations Subcommittee hosted a hearing titled: “Who Is Selling Your Data: A Critical Examination Of The Role Of Data Brokers In The Digital Economy.” Witnesses included: Justin Sherman. Senior Fellow & Research Lead Data Brokerage Project. Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy (Written testimony) Marshall Erwin, VP & Chief Security Officer, Mozilla Corporation (Written testimony) Prof. Laura Moy, Associate Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Center on Privacy & Technology, Georgetown Law Center (Written testimony) What follows is a lightly edited transcript. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-VA: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will now come to order. The chair now recognizes himself. That would be me for five minutes for an opening statement. Welcome everyone to what I hope will be a productive fact finding hearing on the current state of the data broker ecosystem. It is obvious from the testimony that a staggering amount of information is collected on Americans every day frequently without their knowledge or consent. This data then gets shared, analyzed, combined with other data sets bought and sold. In some cases, this data is not even anonymized, meaning that it is easy for bad actors to find deeply personal information on individuals such as their location, demographic, data, and health information. Some of these data brokers are companies that most people are familiar with, but others operate in the shadows with many Americans never knowing…Transcript: House Oversight And Investigations Subcommittee Hearing: “Who Is Selling Your Data: A Critical Examination Of The Role Of Data Brokers In The Digital Economy”
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