the tech giant released the response to the committee request. they wanted details about the smartphone data collection practices. google received a similar letter. global stocks mixed today following wall street. the nas caudaq closed higher. trade tensions were back. china slapped tariffs on $16 billion of u.s. goods. there was a drop of energy stocks. crude oil prices hit a six-week low. elon musk stunned investors he could take tesla private. stock rose 11% after musk tweeted he secured funding for a buyout. wall street journal reports if the fcc disclosing if that is
their data when when private companies data collection practices have been breached and certainly critics people left on the front have explained what s at stake for down individually that they can be tracked that their activities can be monitored so i think there is real objection as we saw in a report the comfrey company representatives we spoke to said that this facial recognition technology is actually helping to keep people safe do you agree but i think the government really hasn t made that case china has for a long time had a very low crime rate and so to suggest that hoovering up massive quantities of personal data off and without letting people know somehow makes the population safer i think is at best a debatable proposition i think there s also the reality that forcibly collecting data from people as we ve documented for example in synch on can actually profoundly alienate them and produce certain kinds of problems that that the state
the facebook data privacy scandal has put a spotlight on the data collection practices of social media and other online platforms. while facebook has a lot of access to information about you, consider how much google could know about you. google has many products and services under its umbrella. the search engine, google maps, youtube, chrome internet browser, google play, google assistant and cell phone operating system android. it gives google all huge reach. the android operating system is used on more than 2 billion devices. maps, chrome, search, youtube, g-mail play has 1 billion users. according to the wall street journal google can use its services to collect data whether you have an account with them or not. like facebook google has access to your name, gender, phone
mark zuckerberg back on capitol hill after dozens of senators questioned him for hours about the data breach. laurie segall is live with more. reporter: huge day for the company, for the next couple days. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg faced a grilling yesterday on capitol hill apologizing for his role in mishandling user data. take a listen. we didn t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. and it was my mistake. and i m sorry. we ve seen the apology tours before. reporter: during a grueling five hours of testimony, more than 40 senators pressing the facebook ceo on its data collection practices and privacy policies. after the scandal involving cambridge analytica, a
considering the findings of this panel that would scale back a lot of its data collection practices. you have companies like google and yahoo! saying we re going to be encrypting our files so the nsa can t just come in through the back door. and i think they re going to start to see pushback from the business community at large. boeing lost a big contract in brazil because brazil got angry about these revelations and so it decided to go with another company. so, i mean, i think his basic statement that he s succeeded is correct. he has changed the conversation. we are looking at scaling back the nsa. now, to your original question about whether the nsa would think that it s more effective, i think they probably disagree with that. i think most of us would like to use as many capabilities as we can and when you have outside pressure, when you have congress or the other elements of the government scaling them back, they probably are not so happy about that. irin, why now? why is he tal