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Information with little outside oversight. some examples of how users were affected per "the new york times." facebook allowed microsoft bing search engine to see the names of virtually all facebook users friends without consent. they gave netflix and spotify the ability to use private messages. facebook also permitted amazon for users names and content information through their friends. and facebook let yahoo! view streams of friends posts as recently as this summer. despite public statements that it stopped that type of sharing years earlier. amid all of this a new survey by the pugh researc...

Healthier or protect yourself from disease? who is not going to buy that up? >> that is exactly right. the strategy with a lot of food companies, even from the color of the packaging, content information, everything is -- you've got a lot of talent behind that. they know the billions of dollars they can come up with. if they are able to get closer to that window that says, by the way, if you eat my avocados because they are perfect, you are going to reduce your brad cholesterol and live another 50 years, of course you go for that marketing. that is the problem. we have to get away from all tha...

probable cause for any kind of content information. but even querying a phone number, what number did it call, you should have to go to the court first. second, to your other point, we should have somebody at the court whose job it is, whose responsibility it is to make sure that they're putting forward the counterargument. after all in, a court of law, you have two parties -- the court itself should not be -- they should be the person who makes the decision between the two arguments. >> right. >> right now they're hearing only one argument so i think that's really important. >> let me quic...

The fisc, meaning the court, is forced to rely upon the accuracy of the information that is provided to the court. so the nsa brings all its information to the court and says, hey, here's our information. and they have got no way to independently know whether that information is correct or complete. and let's face it, spy agencies want to spy. it's what they do. they want to keep us safe. and the more the better for them, we understand that. >> that's right. and sometimes the nsa folks come after the fact to the court and say hey, court, here's what we say happened. here's what we believe happ...

>> the use of social media or online searches is absolutely crucial. it is free information. it's there. absolutely people should be utilizing this. >> reporter: but with that comes concern about law enforcement overstepping boundaries. facebook says it is cautious about using information. in a statement provided by cnn, a spokesperson tells us we never turn over content information unless that process is a search warrant reviewed by a judge. we are required to regularly push back against overbroad requests. civil liberties groups say facebook has adopted the correct position by insisting on a...