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The expertise in congress is not as high in the valley, and these companies need to understand this problem isnt going to go away, and the ability to misuse their platforms is only going to grow worse, just one last comment. were still trying to wrestle with the question of fake accounts. the next wave of misuse will come in whats called deep fakes technology where someone elses face can be put on your body. or a public figure can have any words come out of my mouth. thats whats coming next and ...

Analytica to testify. they said facebook needs to be called back to explain how private user information was provided to these academic research with links to russia. facebook tanked today nearly 7%. >> thanks for that report. after a fourth bomb explodes in austin, texas, police confirm feefrs residents saying the sth bombs are like i set by a sophisticated bomber. >> it is not targeted to individuals. were very concerned that with trip wires, a child could be walking down a sidewalk and hit so...

>> neil: i hear you. thanks. >> thank you. >> neil: and what happened on the corner of wall and broad today. a big sell off. as bad it looked, it was worse. the dow around 24,610. good enough to be in negative territory on the year. charms payne, host of "making money" on whats got so many people rattled. >> the market took it on the chin again. headlines, not fundamentals that triggered investor selling. facebook at the center of another controversy. personal information was harvested in the 20...

Conducting an internal and external review and remains focused on enforcing policies protecting user information. >> wow. >> im going to take a breath with that statement. >> that is crazy. all right. good explanation because its a complicated issue. joining us now, "washington post" tech policy reporter tony rahm. thanks to both of you. scott galloway, good to see you. tony, let me start with you. that was a thorough explanation of whats going on. when you separate the wheat from the chaff on t...

And the kremlin. what connection, if any, did luke oil have with these major players in cambridge analytica? >> well, cambridge analytica had meetings with luke oil and actually sent research done with some of this facebook data. a contract was never signed, but there were meetings, and cambridge analytica did want to work with luke oil. >> do we know whether or not steve bannon took any of those meetings? >> no, i dont believe he did. >> okay. well, all of which is more grist for the mill in te...

Today lawmakers want answers and are calling for facebooks mark zuckerberg to come forward and explain how user information from millions of people landed in the hands of cambridge analytica, a data analytics firm with ties to trumps 2016 campaign. >> certainly who knew what when. this is a big deal, when you have that amount of data and the privacy violations are significant. >> we ought to be very, very careful about the government collecting that data from private entities. the privacy of the...

See entertainment, but its a place where many of our political conversations, our most urgent and important civic dialogue, is happening in the country. with that comes a huge responsibility, certainly to make sure that foreign powers are not able to hack our elections. >> now, of course this interview with chris hughes was before the new explosive revelations on facebook on friday. the company says it is suspending the political data analytics firm cambridge analytica, which worked for the trum...

No other information was included with that comment which would indicate a time, location or the true identity of the person who made the comment. the fbi conducted data base reviews, checks, but was unable to further identify the person who actually made the comment. >> ben, your response to the fbi there today talking about how they were not able to identify the person who posted that. >> well, i think in todays on-line world it is very difficult to narrow down who does what without more infor...

Exposed 50 million users. it is only now telling the public. why did this take so long for the company to come forward? >> its a good question. we see this happening all the time with these massive data breaches. yahoo did the same thing. all their user information was hacked several years ago but we found out about it in the past couple of months. home depot, nordstrom, other big hacks. they keep it quiet to mitigate damage. when you hear a service that you use has been hacked your initial reac...

Course they cannot avoid having that political debate also in the next few days and months ahead. yahoo now says that it is likely that all three billion of its user accounts were affected by the twenty thirteen hack there by tripling its earlier estimate of the size of the largest breach in history the company said that user information such as passwords credit card numbers or bank account details were not compromised the company also said that they are taking quote significant steps to up thei...