What you need to know about the tech hearings on Capitol Hill

On Wednesday, representatives from some of the country's biggest tech and communications companies appeared before Congress to testify on consumer privacy. The industry's stance is clear: these tech companies support regulation, so long as it's governed on the federal level, and so long as they have a say in the contents of the laws.

Executives from AT&T, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and Charter Communications provided testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Technology in a hearing called Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy.