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Personal information was improperly shared with cambridge analytical. the data mining firm worked with campaigns. facebook says 87 million people may have been affected. far higher than previously reported. a jewish advocacy group suing san francisco state university claiming discrimination against jewish and israeli students. the executive director of the projects says "jewish students are afraid to publicly display their identities and live in fear of systematic discrimination, harassment and ...

Enough view of what our responsibility is and that was a huge mistake. it was my mistake. >> sandra: were live in los angeles with an update on all of us. things quickly changing on this front and two big hearings coming up. >> thats right. changing by the day, sandra. like you said, the social media giant has a lot of explaining to do as they say. word late yesterday that many more people than were previously thought were exposed in this cambridge analytica privacy scandal. up to 87 million peo...

In our engagement with scl, which you say is related to cambridge analytica, in our engagement at no time did we ask them to do any kind of data mining. >> reporter: why dont you want to find out who they are and who their parent company is? >> its not necessary. not my business to find out who are your business associates, is it? >> reporter: those business associates have such a terrible reputation in terms of negative campaigning, would you hire them again in 2022? >> no, i would not, not bec...

>> right. >> whats he going to do, share his algorithms or share the data he has with the government? something has to happen. something must be done just like gdpr. like he said, theres no clear answer. >> speaking of algorithms, with all this data mining of me, i feel like every little fingerprint, digital like algorithm swirling around my head. is it that bad? are they looking and breathing down our necks with everything we do? >> feels liken am i of the state minority report. look how much a...

Now congress is talking about trying to pass new laws. im concerned every time theres a violation and whenever something happens theres a rush to pass new laws. in this case, facebook is like a library being blamed for someone coming in and stealing books. they stole data available through facebook the same it was to the obama campaign and exists on data mining or sets being used by other campaigns. theres a rush to blame facebook. when it comes to it theres other bad actors that should receive ...

Mark zuckerberg. that needs to come sooner rather than later because theres a lot of questions he needs to answer. and its not just about these sort of privacy settings for each of the users and how they can, you know, improve those in one direction or another. im interested in whats going on behind the dashboard, whats going on in sort of the data mining engine room of facebook. >> sounds like youre a little skeptical of the new things they rolled out today. do you think thats a pr sidebar? >> ...

Information. and when he talks about everybody needs their universal basic income, my goodness, gracious, if he were compensating people for the data mining on you every day -- >> sandra: what would you ask him? >> to agree to privacy standards in federal statute and would agree to one set of privacy standards for the entire eco system for your internet service provider and search engines. people utilizing and data mining. and i would want to know if he would agree to give you, the consumer, the...

>> sandra: lets touch base with harris on about whats coming up on "outnumbered overtime" in just a few minutes. >> harris: we are going to talk about russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former russian spy in britain. is this president now showing more spine against russia than president obama ever did and what will president trumps critics have to say now? the facebook data mining scandal already started the delete facebook movement and got advertisers pulling out. the federal trade commi...

Point is that is facebooks business. >> that is, of course, former white house chief strategist steve bannon denying any knowledge about cambridge analyticas data mining from facebook in an interview with "financial times" editor lionel barber who joins us now. also with us, white house correspondent for pbs hour in yamiche alcindor. lionel, i want to talk about your interview with bannon but we were discussing in the break john bolton and conversations youve had with him in the past. >> i rem...

We made mistakes that is what facebook boss mark zuckerberg has said in response to the data scandal involving his company and data mining firm cambridge analytic in a statement on his facebook profile and in an interview shortly thereafter sucker broke up pollack eyes that promised users a new feature to turn off third party apps apps which came with the analytical allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an innocent personality quiz and ended up with a fifty million faceboo...