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But the key here is you put yourself at risk when you start giving people's data away. people think they're taking an innocent psychological quiz. none of them thinks that their information is going to actually be given to a political consultant. i don't care if it's for a republican or democrat. they don't think that. and that's their problem. they have built a product with no locks on the doors and no alarms, and now they are finally coming forward and saying that we want to fix some things. the other piece of this is political ads. something that i've been advocating for now for over a year...

After the government finds out? >> i think that would be a great idea. but then you need a congress to act. and there are too many people that are afraid of doing something about this because we know the sites are popular. everyone loves putting recipes, cat videos. it is a great thing. same time there's an ugly side of this and someone once said that the systems were set up without alarms, without locks and big surprise, bad guys are coming in and manipulating people. and that is what's happening and worse. literally committing crimes when they tell people they can text in and vote. and the l...

So you have a bill to sort of beef up security grants and best practices to give those to the states. >> and provide for auditing afterward because ten states don't even have that. the paper ballot idea. >> probably have regardless of whatever foreign add ser varies are doing. on the second question, it seems like that's a tricky area. i want to get to the third thing, intrusions and hacks. on the second activity it, seemed some of the intelligence heads said today look they are still doing that stuff, bots, social media, all that stuff. that is strange territory in terms of what is and within...

Practices to give those to the states. >> and provide for auditing afterward because ten states don't even have that. the paper ballot idea. >> probably have regardless of whatever foreign add ser varies are doing. on the second question, it seems like that's a tricky area. i want to get to the third thing, intrusions and hacks. on the second activity it, seemed some of the intelligence heads said today look they are still doing that stuff, bots, social media, all that stuff. that is strange territory in terms of what is and within the law, what can and and the be regulated. >> this is the ult...

Congress has to look at. if you look political advertising, it's very much regulated, candidate ads are regulated. that's largely -- that's largely not extended in the same -- with the same kind of robust legal architecture to social media sites. it's one of the things that i think congress will have to take a look at. if facebook and google aren't going to police what activities happen on their sites that might be sponsored by foreign governments, that's the type of thing congress might want to take a look at in term of whether we need new laws going forward. >> ned, we just heard a few momen...