https://phys.org/news/2018-09-senate-panel-internet-execs-privacy.html > Executives of a half-dozen U.S. internet titans are due to appear Wednesday before the Senate Commerce Committee to explain their privacy policies. Senior executives from AT&T, Amazon, Apple, Google, Twitter and Charter Communications are expected to testify at the hearing, amid increasing anxiety over safeguarding consumers' data online and recent scandals that have stoked outrage among users and politicians. > But the approach to privacy legislation being pondered by policymakers and pushed by the internet industry leans toward a relatively light government touch.