S. HRG. 115–683 FACEBOOK, SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVACY, AND THE USE AND ABUSE OF DATA JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES SENATE AND THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION APRIL 10, 2018 Serial No. J–115–40 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ( Available online: http://www.govinfo.gov VerDate Nov 24 2008 09:24 Nov 08, 2019 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6011 Sfmt 6011 S:\GPO\DOCS\37801.TXT JACKIE FACEBOOK, SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVACY, AND THE USE AND ABUSE OF DATA VerDate Nov 24 2008 09:24 Nov 08, 2019 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6019 Sfmt 6019 S:\GPO\DOCS\37801.TXT JACKIE S. HRG. 115–683 FACEBOOK, SOCIAL MEDIA PRIVACY, AND THE USE AND ABUSE OF DATA JOINT HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION UNITED STATES SENATE AND THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION APRIL 10, 2018 Serial No. J–115–40 Printed for the use of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation ( Available online: http://www.govinfo.gov U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE 37–801 PDF WASHINGTON : 2019 VerDate Nov 24 2008 09:24 Nov 08, 2019 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 S:\GPO\DOCS\37801.TXT JACKIE SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE, AND TRANSPORTATION ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION JOHN THUNE, South Dakota, Chairman ROGER WICKER, Mississippi BILL NELSON, Florida, Ranking ROY BLUNT, Missouri MARIA CANTWELL, Washington TED CRUZ, Texas AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota DEB FISCHER, Nebraska RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, Connecticut JERRY MORAN, Kansas BRIAN SCHATZ, Hawaii DAN SULLIVAN, Alaska EDWARD MARKEY, Massachusetts DEAN HELLER, Nevada TOM UDALL, New Mexico JAMES INHOFE, Oklahoma GARY PETERS, Michigan MIKE LEE, Utah TAMMY BALDWIN, Wisconsin RON JOHNSON, Wisconsin TAMMY DUCKWORTH, Illinois SHELLEY MOORE CAPITO, West Virginia MAGGIE HASSAN, New Hampshire CORY GARDNER, Colorado CATHERINE CORTEZ MASTO, Nevada TODD YOUNG, Indiana JON TESTER, Montana NICK ROSSI, Staff Director ADRIAN ARNAKIS, Deputy Staff Director JASON VAN BEEK, General Counsel KIM LIPSKY, Democratic Staff Director CHRIS DAY, Democratic Deputy Staff Director RENAE BLACK, Senior Counsel SENATE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY ONE HUNDRED FIFTEENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION CHUCK GRASSLEY, Iowa, Chairman ORRIN HATCH, Utah DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California, Ranking LINDSEY GRAHAM, South Carolina PATRICK LEAHY, Vermont JOHN CORNYN, Texas RICHARD DURBIN, Illinois MIKE LEE, Utah SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island TED CRUZ, Texas AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota BEN SASSE, Nebraska CHRISTOPHER COONS, Delaware JEFF FLAKE, Arizona RICHARD BLUMENTHAL, Connecticut MIKE CRAPO, Idaho MAZIE HIRONO, Hawaii THOM TILLIS, North Carolina CORY BOOKER, New Jeresey JOHN KENNEDY, Louisiana KAMALA HARRIS, California (II) VerDate Nov 24 2008 09:24 Nov 08, 2019 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\GPO\DOCS\37801.TXT JACKIE C O N T E N T S Page Hearing held on April 10, 2018 .............................................................................. 1 Statement of Senator Grassley ............................................................................... 1 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 5 Statement of Senator Thune ................................................................................... 2 Statement of Senator Feinstein .............................................................................. 3 Letter dated April 9, 2018 from Faiz Shakir, National Political Director and Neema Singh Guliani, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Lib- erties Union ................................................................................................... 51 Letter dated April 9, 2018 to Senator Chuck Grassley, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Senator John Thune, and Senator Bill Nelson from Marc Rotenberg, President; Sunny Kang, International Consumer Counsel; Caitriona Fitzgerald, Policy Director; Sam Lester, Consumer Privacy Counsel; and Enid Zhou, Open Government Fellow, Electronic Privacy Information Center ....................................................................................... 54 Letter dated April 9, 2018 to Hon. John Thune, Hon. Charles Grassley, Hon. Bill Nelson and Hon. Dianne Feinstein from Stuart Shapiro, Chair, Association for Computing Machinery ............................................. 81 Comments dated April 9, 2018 from Carl Szabo, Vice President and General Counsel, NetChoice ........................................................................ 84 Letter dated April 10, 2018 to Hon. Chuck Grassley, Hon. Dianne Fein- stein, Hon. John Thune and Hon. Bill Nelson from Allison S. Bohm, Policy Counsel, Public Knowledge ............................................................... 88 Letter dated April 10, 2018 to Chairmen Grassley and Thune, and Rank- ing Members Feinstein and Nelson from Charles H. Rivkin, Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America ...................................... 147 Statement of Senator Nelson .................................................................................. 6 Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 7 Statement of Senator Hatch ................................................................................... 21 Statement of Senator Cantwell .............................................................................. 22 Statement of Senator Wicker .................................................................................. 24 Statement of Senator Leahy ................................................................................... 27 Statement of Senator Graham ................................................................................ 29 Statement of Senator Klobuchar ............................................................................ 32 Statement of Senator Blunt .................................................................................... 34 Statement of Senator Durbin .................................................................................. 38 Statement of Senator Cornyn ................................................................................. 41 Statement of Senator Blumenthal .......................................................................... 43 Statement of Senator Cruz ..................................................................................... 48 Statement of Senator Whitehouse .......................................................................... 91 Statement of Senator Lee ....................................................................................... 93 Statement of Senator Schatz .................................................................................. 95 Statement of Senator Fischer ................................................................................. 97 Statement of Senator Coons ................................................................................... 99 Statement of Senator Sasse .................................................................................... 102 Statement of Senator Markey ................................................................................. 103 Statement of Senator Flake .................................................................................... 106 Statement of Senator Hirono .................................................................................. 107 Statement of Senator Sullivan ............................................................................... 109 Statement of Senator Udall .................................................................................... 111 Statement of Senator Moran .................................................................................. 114 Statement of Senator Booker .................................................................................. 116 Statement of Senator Heller ................................................................................... 118 Statement of Senator Peters ................................................................................... 120 Statement of Senator Tillis ..................................................................................... 123 (III) VerDate Nov 24 2008 09:24 Nov 08, 2019 Jkt 000000 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 S:\GPO\DOCS\37801.TXT JACKIE IV Page Statement of Senator Harris .................................................................................. 125 Statement of Senator Kennedy ............................................................................... 126 Statement of Senator Baldwin ................................................................................ 128 Statement of Senator Johnson ................................................................................ 131 Statement of Senator Hassan ................................................................................. 133 Statement of Senator Capito .................................................................................. 135 Statement of Senator Cortez Masto ....................................................................... 138 Statement of Senator Gardner ............................................................................... 139 Statement of Senator Tester ..................................................................................