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In terms of Safe Harbor, it's my understanding that it’s been confirmed on the European
side and was confirmed at the US-EU Safe Harbor conference in Washington in March, that the
safe harbor agreement is grand-fathered under the regulation. It’s been an effective device,
some 35 hundred companies, large and small, have such go ahead. There are companies that
have forcified their statements, have been accountable for their compliance with what
they have undertaken in the safe harbor agreement. That’s why we have law enforcement and that’s
where the FTC comes into the pictures. We are the enforcement agency and just in
the last 3 or 4 years alone we have brought 10 cases, some about false certifications
but others against the two Internet giants, Google and Facebook, for making misrepresentation
about the notice and choice compliance with the Safe Harbor framework, more recently we
have done the same with My Space. That’s the visible component of our work on Safe
Harbor. What you don’t see is the audits that we do of companies that claim to be Safe
Harbor compliant but that we are investigating for privacy violation.