Oversight of laws and policies governing the collection, protection, use and dissemination of commercial information by the private sector, including online behavioral advertising, privacy within social networking websites and other online privacy issues;
Enforcement and implementation of commercial information privacy laws and policies;
Use of technology by the private sector to protect privacy, enhance transparency and encourage innovation;
Privacy standards for the collection, retention, use and dissemination of personally identifiable commercial information; and
Privacy implications of new or emerging technologies.
In May 2022, the subcommittee held a hearing titled "Platform Transparency: Understanding the Impact of Social Media". The hearing centered on issues pertaining to
social media platforms, and evaluated proposals that would mandate platforms share information on how their
algorithms operate with researchers.[1]