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Associated press this august that found that users who were on their android smartphones and thought they had turned off tracking of their location actually had some of that location data tracked, time stamped, and stored on their devices perhaps without their knowledge, and so now we have a probe from the attorney general of arizona, a republican, whos looking into whether this was deceptive to users, whether google misled users as to what was happening with respect to their privacy. this could...

Welcome back to "velshi & ruhle." this morning google is facing scrutiny over its use of gps tracking. the company is accused of recording location data of android device users even if they opted out. and now the arizona attorney general is launching a probe into the practice according to "the washington post," one that could mean up to a $10,000 fine per violation. google told the ap back in august that it provides, quote, clear descriptions of location tools and robust controls so people can t...

Android. even then theyll be too dominant. we need step two, new antitrust system. laid out my new book, positive populism. its a disincentive to dominance and a force to real competition. candace, big tech, you been in the thick of it. >> i have been. on capitol hill, jack dorsey was questioned about my censorship on twitter and comparison of sarah john tweets. i retreated with the new york times editor tweeted but remove the word white people and replace with black people. within minutes my ac...

Android. even then theyll be too dominant. we need step two, new antitrust system. laid out my new book, positive populism. its a disincentive to dominance and a force to real competition. candace, big tech, you been in the thick of it. >> i have been. on capitol hill, jack dorsey was questioned about my censorship on twitter and comparison of sarah john tweets. i retreated with the new york times editor tweeted but remove the word white people and replace with black people. within minutes my ac...

Particular areas. its important to disclose that my wife is a senior executive at facebook. the problem is no one should be overmighty, not the government, or big unions and not big business and not big tech. we need a two-stage process. a pro-market breakup of these companies. facebook need to be forced to sell whatsapp and android and amazon. these platforms are too powerful. howie: i was going to ask you about the justice department meeting with state attorneys general whether the tech compan...

Dominant in each of their particular areas. its important to disclose that my wife is a senior executive at facebook. the problem is no one should be overmighty, not the government, or big unions and not big business and not big tech. we need a two-stage process. a pro-market breakup of these companies. facebook need to be forced to sell whatsapp and android and amazon. these platforms are too powerful. howie: i was going to ask you about the justice department meeting with state attorneys gener...

Fearier product. if you are using google maps, which most of us are, it is constantly tracking your data. left of center as we learned earlier in the month. if you are using google search, and said stop tracking me but you are using google search on your mobile device, be that on an iphone or android device they are again capturing your location. >> tucker: wouldnt be such a big deal if you could trust the company werent working on behalf china. thank you for reporting. >> thank you for having m...

We thought of that, too. this is the other phone that we had with us that no sim card, also remains in airplane mode the entire dime. lets see what kind of data it captured. >> the phone with airplane phone activated logged more locations and activities than the other phone and also transferred hundreds of kill bow bites of data to google as soon as it was activated. >> only thing missing at this is the stop at the childrens hospital still knows we are there. exiting vehicle, 100 percent accurac...

Fearier product. if you are using google maps, which most of us are, it is constantly tracking your data. left of center as we learned earlier in the month. if you are using google search, and said stop tracking me but you are using google search on your mobile device, be that on an iphone or android device they are again capturing your location. >> tucker: wouldnt be such a big deal if you could trust the company werent working on behalf china. thank you for reporting. >> thank you for having m...

Airplane mode. we thought of that, too. this is the other phone that we had with us that no sim card, also remains in airplane mode the entire dime. lets see what kind of data it captured. >> the phone with airplane phone activated logged more locations and activities than the other phone and also transferred hundreds of kill bow bites of data to google as soon as it was activated. >> only thing missing at this is the stop at the childrens hospital still knows we are there. exiting vehicle, 100 ...