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Connecting everyone. privately theyre on war footing and going after their enemies. >> they dont want regulation they cant get around. saying look weve taken all the best ideas already and well do them ourselves, but in public theyre saying we are ready for regulation, it is time. its a two-step. >> the incoming democratic chair of the house anti-trust had this to say, its stunning to see that facebook -- will always put -- taste book chose to turn a blind eye to hate speech and russian propagan...

Regulation, it is time. its a two-step. >> the incoming democratic chair of the house anti-trust had this to say, its stunning to see that facebook -- will always put -- taste book chose to turn a blind eye to hate speech and russian propaganda on its platform. top executives did everything they could to hide it from the public and propagating theories. >> thats a searing press release from the congressman. while facebook is worried about privacy rules, for example, what theyre deathly afraid of...

It thats when the company was in trouble. they didnt have any allies. as you look at this new congress and you look just at the political landscape in general going forward is facebook about to get in that place where they are facing equal criticism or similar criticism from both sides of the partisan aisle. >> yes. conservatives think they are being censored on facebook. liberals think facebook handed the election to donald trump. we saw a press release yesterday from the incoming chair of the ...

♪ ♪ just dont think you have to do it alone. ♪ ♪ the powerful backing of american express. dont live life without it. how do we convince i.t. departments in enterprises to allow software vendors to access their data as it is now in the cloud? >> this is a trickier question than ever right now. data security and data privacy is a super hot issue. we all know go gdpr in europe. the privacy laws are coming out of state. california has these rules. the first thing we have to do, if you wan...

Convalley and big tech built to defend their business model over 20 years. similar to the political machines built by other big industries in the past like oil bar bar barons. it succeeded in beating off almost every serious effort to regulate big tech and strict access to data until recently in california where an unlikely activist actually used a technique originally devised to beat the trusts and the oil barons and put a referendum on the california ballot to have more privacy rules. what cha...

>> you have to fix the problems. and not 2017, it was 2012, the last time they had a sell-off like this, a long time ago. it feels like yesterday. i will say sheryl sandberg and some other tech execs will be on the hill in september answering some of these questions. >> the other thing is get out in front of the regulators. if youre facebook, you want to show youre spending money and getting out in front of the regulators who could potentially slow your profit more if they put in more onerous pr...

Right now the privacy rules are feeding that conversation. we cant allow that anymore. we need to get police the information of who the threats are so that we can deal with them effectively. >> jon: it is not unlike, ed, the experience that you went through in boston where, you know, one of the great athletic and celebratory events that city has each year, one year somebody dropped a bunch of bombs at the finish line. just the kind of shock and revulsion that goes through your mind at the idea o...

Would comply with the new european privacy rules. and reporting from the frankfurt stock exchange caller thank you and staying with the worlds biggest social network facebook owned messaging service whatsapp is raising its minimum user age and europe from thirteen to sixteen years thats also to help comply with new european data privacy wools users will have to confirm their over sixteen years old when they agree to the new terms of service and privacy policies but its not clear how the complian...

Trust with their users, they know that theyre going to have to have some privacy regulations in place and the whole question is going to be what those privacy rules are. but we just cant keep going and pretend they are just a site for cat videos and recipes. >> the answers that zuckerberg gave to the joint committee, do you think he was forthcoming in general with his answers and do you think this actually did move the ball forward when it comes to any kind of possible facebook oversight? >> wel...

Clobu char. >> were you satisfied with the answer to your question today, do you think he understands the severity and the political ramification of his platform. >> i think he does. and i was interested that he said there was a connection. that would point directly to the fact this cambridge analytica data off of facebook is somehow has some major overlap with what the russian troll factory was doing. and again, i think that what we learned today was that they know they have a major breach of t...