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The social media giant has since agreed to implement new to new oversight measures but there are some questions about whether federal regulators should have done more to protect consumers like fine mark zuckerberg, personally, and limited his authority potentially. christina has the story tonight. >> unfortunately thats not the case. mark zuckerberg is not being held personally liable but facebook does have to do a few things now that they are blinded to this 20 year settlement with the ftc. the...

Like over there. >> shep, it is being called the most sweeping online privacy law in the entire world. it is the european unions general data protection regulation for gdpr. it went into effect last spring and already having an effect. take a look. >> digital consumers here have help protecting their online privacy. gdpr ensures customers can delete any data stored by firms like google or facebook. make sure privacy rules are spelled out in clear language. if theres a data breach, firms have to ...

Now, we put the people in touch. for privacy rules, there are certain restrictions on who actually has to pass that information on. but hopefully it will all workout thanks to that good samaritan. >> ive been seeing a lot of it. im getting e-mails and tweets from people saying how do i get in touch with somebody, how do i help them? it is kind of remarkable. there is a silver lining here, hans. americans are good, big hearted people and they will help their fellow americans. thank you, hans. and...

Sentences moving forward. a new report says facebook exempted some big tech companies from abiding by its privacy rules, handing over private messages of users to benefit these other big tech companies. why? and what is facebook saying in response? ♪ just look at those two. happy. in love. and saving so much money on their car insurance by switching to geico... well, just look at this setting. do you have the ring? oh, helzberg diamonds. another beautiful setting. im not crying. ive just got...

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♪ >> harris: new serious questions about facebook after a bombshell report in "the new york times" thing with social media giant gave tech companies much more access to personal data than previously disclosed. including allowing companies like netflix and spotify to read users private messages. they are also reporting that for years facebook gave some of the worlds largest tech companies more intrusive access to users personal data than it has, effectively does know mike excluding them from th...

Waste of money that was. to what end is this now with this investigation? it seems like its never going to stop until they find something and they are not finding what they want. >> yeah. they are not investigating crimes in search of people they are investigating people in search of crimes. people are donald trump and his team. and jedediah, whats really disturbing about this is, this is, by the way, the mueller probe is the biggest rip off in america history. the biggest difference with bengha...

Gotten too big. and, of course, an administration that big things are happening. as they stories continue to pile up, that could change. >> i know president trump is set to meet with big tech ceos at the white house. whats behind the stabilizing at this point? >> i expect this one to be a little different than the one earlier in the administration. a lot of tech companies were speaking out very publicly against the presidents proposed travel ban. this with one should be a lot different. tech com...

Detailing facebooks business practices. these are documents that are under seal in the united states, but of course in the united kingdom, they dont have to follow u.s. rules. that is a small taste of what facebook will continue to face in europe. increasing pressures on his privacy rules, the rules which impacted the brexit rules in the uk and european anti-trust rules are very different than those in the united states. europe, it takes a far more difficult terrain. >> could we actually see som...

Has 60% of voting rights at facebook, sheryl sandberg will be with him for decades to come. >> julie: their stock is falling, how do they make up for that loss? and is it possible that facebook users that have been deleted and just gone to instagram, you mentioned a lot of young people ditching facebook, basically said "im going to instagram." >> which they own as well. >> julie: will facebook users possibly be incurring charges? ive heard rumors that could happen. >> the reason why facebook tak...