House Commerce Committee

House Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.

House Commerce Committee Leaders wrote to Google CEO Sundar Pichai expressing their concern about reports of a massive database of precise location information on hundreds of millions of consumers, known inside Google as “Sensorvault, ” and requesting a briefing and answers on how this information is used both inside and outside the company.  The letter was signed by Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.

House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) wrote to the Federal Trade Commission asking how it would use additional resources to protect consumer privacy and increase data security enforcement activity. The Committee leaders asked how the FTC would deploy resources under three different scenarios – if it received an additional $50, $75 or $100 million for consumer protection and privacy. Chairmen Pallone and Schakowsky requested responses from the FTC to a series of questions by April 3, 2019, including:

House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.

Democratic leaders of the House and Senate unveiled the Save the Internet Act that will keep the internet open and free.

House Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.