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Users have permission. joining me with the latest from our west coast newsroom, fox news correspondent trace gallagher. trace. >> good evening, dan. facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg as long as that facebook users control their own data, but "the new york times" obtain hundreds of pages of facebook documents and interview dozens of former facebook employees. apparently zuckerbergs claim isnt true. for example, the times has facebook allowed microsoft bing search engine to see the names of...

Our west coast newsroom, fox news correspondent trace gallagher. trace. >> good evening, dan. facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg has long said facebook users control their own data, but "the new york times" obtained hundredss of pages of facebook documents and interviewed dozens of former facebook employees. apparently zuckerbergs claim isnt true. for example, the times says facebook allowed microsoft bing search engine to see the names of all facebook users friends without consent. facebo...

Messages. were not the type to slide into your dms. facebook stock fell 7% yesterday. one of the companys single worst days in a year when its shares are down 25% over all. >> julie: at one point yesterday they went up a bit which was surprising considering the fallout. now facebook i understand is facing some pretty real legal trouble over privacy concerns, right? >> yeah, very real legal trouble. the attorney general for washington, d.c. has filed a lawsuit accusing facebook of failing to prot...

Users personal data, reportedly exempting them from its usual privacy rules. according to the report, facebook offered microsofts bing the ability to look at facebook users friends without their consent. even allegedly offering companies like netflix and spotify the access to read, write and delete users private messages. seeming to contradict mark zuckerbergs assurances from april. >> every piece of content that you share on facebook, you own and you have complete control over who sees it. >> r...

A little bit so far. 9:31. up triple digits. nice to see. internal documents out of facebook the company has sought to not make public. the confidential files may provide evidence of blatant disregard for user privacy. what does it mean for you? greg palkot is live in london with more. >> some important information emerging this morning on this very important story. pressure building on facebook on this side of the atlantic. a committee of the u.k. parliament investigating facebook and consumer ...

Your point about earlier around. you know how do we separate out the security data you know its very important that we dont have people who arent facebook users not coming to our service and trying to scrape the public data thats available so one of the ways that we do that is you know people use our service and and even if theyre not signed in we need to understand how theyre using the service to prevent that activity and thats you know a big theme of today has been around. making sure that we ...

Employees and offices in 13 u.s. cities and various other countries. like their expanding user base, the data collected on facebook users has also skyrocketed. they have moved on from schools, likes and relationship statuses. today facebook has access to does tzens of data points rangi from ads youve clicked on, events youve attended and your location based upon your mobile device. its no secret that facebook makes money off this data through advertising revenue, all to many seem confused by or ...

And location. and then these really noisy personality predictions. that was basically it. >> when you were offering your data to cambridge analytica, you knew who -- you knew what they did -- did you know what they were going to do with it? did you know what their interest was? >> no. i was pretty heavily siloed as far as clients. i found out about donald trump just like everybody else, through the news. >> whats also key to point out here is that former white house chief strategist steve bannon...

Likes, locations, photos, political affiliations. about 270,000 users downloaded the app., but, in doing so, that also gave the company access to friends and family, reportedly some 50 million. so now there are two critical questions. by signing up for the app., did users unknowingly and without consent override their own privacy settings facebook says no. in 2011 the company signed consent decree with the ftc that required users to affirmatively agree to share their personal data and report any...

Facebook avidly and targeted voters. but whether they crossed the line beyond the ordinary state of american politics in 2016, i just think its not really clear yet. >> so the guardi"the guardian" massive expose on this and theres been a lot of reporting about this company and the way it operated. craig, walk me through why russia is factoring into the suddenly. seems that russia inevitably comes. >> they made a pitch to the russian oil company, so thats a bit mysterious. the person who made the...