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Them it collects from facebook and other apps. >> we do expect them to be compliant on may 25th. >> reporter: lawyer max schrems believes the new rules will be tough enough to prevent the data scraping that other companies like cambridge analytica engaged in. >> if were enforced properly we can get a balance in this digital end. in the end, you as a user have the possibility to use facebook without worrying 24/7 about your data. >> reporter: however they come down on the giants of tech, theyre a...

Scraping that companies like cambridge analytica have engaged in. >> if ebb fonforced properly, question get a balance. and in the end you as a customer have the possibility to use lets say facebook without worrying 24/7 about your data. >> reporter: however the courts come down on the tech giants, europes new data regulations are already redrawing the line between profit and privacy. samuel burke, cnn, london. to talk more about this, we have with us jesse boxsted, a professor at emory univer...

Media platforms and especially facebook. in fact, president obamas campaign developed an app utilizing the same facebook feature as cambridge analytica to capture the information of not just the apps users, but millions of their friends. the digital director for that campaign for 2012, described the data scraping app as something that would, quote, wind up being the most ground breaking piece of technology developed for this campaign, end quote. so the effectiveness of these social media tactics...

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Breathing down its neck. you just mentioned fec and campaign finance law and we have a new breaking story tonight that i want to give you a chance to respond to that steve bannon oversaw cambridge analyticas collection of facebook data, according to the former employee, the whistleblower, who said that bannon, who sat on the board of that company was overseeing a lot of their actions. that he oversaw and sort of gave the green light to this big kind of data scraping that cambridge analytica did ...

Thing to focus on trump. i think its trump plus instruments, tools that exist in the political culture as it is, right? so what we see here is that theres a way in which microtargeting, theres a way nsk psychographics can be used. ted cruzs campaign used or hired cambridge analytica. >> former obama people said we did a lot of data scraping off of facebook which they let us do which wasnt precisely analogous but a little envelope pushing. >> so what were seeing is perhaps the manufacture of cons...

House intelligence committee, of course theyre interested in the idea of any overlap, accidental or intended, between the kind of modus operrandi of the russianing and cambridge analytica. maybe this is how you disseminate information online but certainly it seems to be a blueprint at work that can be traced to both the russians and a data analytics group like cambridge analytica. >> the regulatory environment in the uk means that cambridge analytica has a lot of folks breathing down its neck. y...

Theyre like, yeah, this is what the guy does. and it just goes back to you cant assume because the guy won the election with 46% of the vote that, therefore, the american people have validated this approach. thats not the case. they didnt like him then. they dont really like him now. and what hes doing, hes going to try to do the same thing again, right? the whole concept behind it is they dont think they have a good enough argument to win. >> well, i want to trouble this a bit because i think i...

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