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So a lot of people dont want to do that. but you have complete control over what you do there as well. >> senator schotts? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to follow up on the questions around the terms of service. your terms of service are about 3200 words with 30 links. one of the links is to your data policy which is about 2700 words with 22 links. and i think the point has been well-made that people really have no earthly idea what they are signing up for. and i understand that at the pres...

>> i think that the data policy is exploitive and irresponsible. >> and irresponsible is how she put what cambridge has done with facebooks lax approach. and we spoke, and this is important about what the digital firm that worked for trump did with the day and the whether any of it could be bound up in the big question of russian meddling. >> facebook gave probably thousands of different companies access to the data, and we only asked december of 2017 about seven months later if we had the data ...

Week was worth $20 billion. >> you think they dont care? >> i think the data policy has been only exploitive and incredibly irresponsible. >> irresponsible. thats how she put what facebook has put forward with cambridges lax approach. and what facebook did with the data and whether any of this could be bound up in the big question of russian meddling. >> facebook gave probably thousands of different companies access to this data. we were only asked in december of 2015 about seven months later, i...

And have you ever nearly posted something a little snarky on facebook and then quickly changed your mind? facebook saying it stores every post you write up even if you dont hit the publish button. the company claims years agree to this in the sites data policy. but many are complaining saying tracking peoples unpublished thoughts is just creepy. and thats tonights speed read. a senior white house adviser is on the defense walking back controversial comments me about the gop. in an interview, s...

Have no idea. and if im wrong on that, you are able -- you are telling me, i think, that you are able to supply those figures to us. at least as of this point. >> mr. chairman, i will have my team follow up with you on what information we have. >> okay. but right now you have no certainty of whether or not how much of that is going on, right? okay. facebook collects massive amendments of data from consumers including content, networks, contact lists, device information, location and information ...

>> i was going to assume that sitting here today you have no idea, and if im wrong on that, youre telling me, i think, that youre able to supply these figures to us at least as of this point? >> mr. chairman, i will have my team follow up with you on what information we have. >> okay. but right now you have no certainty of whether or not -- how much of that is going on. right? okay. facebook collecting massive amounts of data from consumers including content, networks, contact lists, device info...