Capital Hill Has Their Eyes On Facebook Over Privacy For Kids

Facebook representatives are to appear before a congressional committee in Washington DC today over the issue of online privacy for kids.  This is a week after Google representatives were in the congressional hot seat for the exact same reasons.

Both companies are testifying before the congressional privacy caucus headed by Representative Ed Markey (D Mass).  Markey told CBS News “We shouldn’t be debating this,”  he went on to say “It’s just about making sure kids get to grow up in an electronic oasis that does not come back to haunt them and their families,”

On the other side of the debate, former Clinton White House adviser Peter Swire tells CBS 

 

 

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