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Facebook at harvard, you know, i only had one option for an isp to use. if i had to pay extra in order to make it so that my app. could potentially be seen or used by other people, then we probably wouldnt be here today. >> well, were talking about privacy concerns. and, let me just say we will have to follow up on this, but i think you and i agree this is going to be one of the major items of debate if we have to go forward and do this from a governmental standpoint. let me just move on to anot...

Spell out all the detail, then you are probably going to reduce the percent of people who read it and make it accessible to them. so, one of the things that we have struggled with over time is to make something that is as simple as possible to supreme can understand it as well as giving them control of inline in the product in the context of when they are trying to actually use them. taking into account that we dont expect that most people want l. want to go through and read a full legal documen...

Well as dislarms that you are going to take early action as soon as june i heard before this election so people can view these ads including issue ads; is that correct? >> that is correct, senator. and i just want to take a moment before i go into this in more detail to thank you for your leadership on this. this, i think is an important area for the whole industry to move on. the two specific things that were doing are one is around transparency. so, now you are going to be able to go and click...

Sharing? >> senator, this is an important question. i would differentiate between isps, which i consider to be the pipes of the internet and the platforms, like facebook or google or twitter, youtube, that are the apps or platforms on top of that. i think in general, the expectations that people have of the pipes are somewhat different from the platforms. so there might be areas where there needs to be more regulation in one and less in the other. i think there are going to be other places where...

Elections, we were able to proactively remove tens of how far to sands of accounts that before they could contribute significant harm and the nature of these attacks though is that, you know, there are people in russia whose job it is to try to exploit our system and other internet systems and other systems as well. this is an arms race. they are going to keep on getting better at this. we need to keep on investing in getting better at this, too. one of the things i mentioned before we will have...

Question. cambridge analytica wasnt using our services in 2015 as far as we can tell. one of the questions i asked our team as soon as i learned about this. why did we wait until we found out about the reports last month to ban them? its as of the time we learned about their activity in 2015. they werent an advertiser and werent running pages. we actually had nothing to ban. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator feinstein. now senator hatch. >> this the most intense public...

Of comments. vast amount of people did too. >> did you a poor job as co communicating your displeasure with such thoughts because he understood where you are at he would have never said it to begin with? >> well, senator, we try to run our company in a way where people can express different opinions internally. >> well, this is an opinion that really disturbs me. and if somebody worked for me that said this, i would fire them. who is your biggest competitor? >> senator, we have a lot of competit...

This may be your first appearance before congress but its not the first time that facebook has phased tough questions about its privacy policies. wired magazine recently noted that you have a 14-year history of apologizing for ill advised decisions regarding user privacy, not unlike the one that you made just now in your opening statement. after more than a decade of promises to do better. how is todays apology different and why should we trust facebook to make the necessary changes to ensure us...

Chevy. if im upset with facebook, whats the equivalent product that i can go sign up for? >> well, there is the second category that i was going to talk about. >> im not talking about categories. im talking about is there real competition you face? because car companies face a lot of competition. if they make a defective car it goes out in the world, they stop buying that car and buy another one. is there an alternative to facebook in the private sector? >> yes. senator, the average senator usin...

Same facebook users whose data was shared with cambridge analytica? are you able to make that determination? >> senator, were investigating that now. we believe that it is entirely possible that there will be a connection there. >> okay. that seems like a big deal as we look back at that last election. former cambridge analytica employee christopher wiley has said that the data that it improperly obtained that cambridge analytica improperly obtained from facebook users could be stored in russia....