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Thanks very much for coming on. to the second first, google g helping china, really the only global rival we face but refusing to help the department of defense. am i overstating that? >> not at all and its actually even worse in that a lot of people dont understand that to do business in china you have to agree to basically be in bed with the chinese government. you have to keep your data entry business over there in china. you have to respond to their data requests and you have to have them lo...

How do you actually do that? you talk about it being years ago, and then you guys have made it a bit stricter for that kind of information to be shared. but backtracking on it, its got to be difficult to find out where that data has gone and what other companies have shady access. >> yeah. as you say, the good news here is we already changed the platform policies in 2014. before that, we know what the apps were that had access to data. we know how much -- how many people were using those service...

Think we now need to go figure out, right? so for all these apps -- >> thats got to be -- i got to say, thats got to be a really challenging ordeal. how do you actually do that? you talk about it being years ago, and then you guys have made it a bit stricter for that kind of information to be shared. but backtracking on it, its got to be difficult to find out where that data has gone and what other companies have shady access. >> yeah. as you say, the good news here is we already changed the pla...

A slew of criticism from dozens of states. heres a small sampling. >> i think the purpose of this besides indulging the presidents fantasy, is to stop people from voting. >> theres not enough bourbon in kentucky nor enough wine in california to make this request sensible. >> seems to maybe be a fishing expedition or a witch-hunt of some kind. >> but that criticism is not only limited to democrats. weve also seen a number of republicans come out and criticize the commission or push back against s...

Government, as well as their faith in the economy. >> canter said he believes the recent hearings on capitol hill, many launched by his fellow republicans, will not only help gain clarity on controversies but prevent similar controversies in the future. big dad of big business and big government. according to apple, federal, state and local authorities made between 4,000 and 5,000 data requests about apple users in the last seven months alone. anchor of "your money."is the so, do we know how m...

Dont tell users about the government data request. facebook, im not giving them an a-plus but they did better than some of the other sites. they dont tell users like google about the data requests or publish transparency reports. they are doing better than the other ones. myspace got two stars. the ones to note, apple and yahoo! think about how much we use apple. essentially they got one star and then at the bottom if you look is ver izon. they got zero stars. >> you have to lock at this informa...