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So a lot of people don't want to do that. but you have complete control over what you do there as well. >> senator schotts? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to follow up on the questions around the terms of service. your terms of service are about 3200 words with 30 links. one of the links is to your data policy which is about 2700 words with 22 links. and i think the point has been well-made that people really have no earthly idea what they are signing up for. and i understand that at the presenat thepresent time that'sy binding. i'm wondering if you can explain to the billions of users in ...

>> i think that the data policy is exploitive and irresponsible. >> and irresponsible is how she put what cambridge has done with facebook's lax approach. and we spoke, and this is important about what the digital firm that worked for trump did with the day and the whether any of it could be bound up in the big question of russian meddling. >> facebook gave probably thousands of different companies access to the data, and we only asked december of 2017 about seven months later if we had the data and to delete it in 2016, and i guerin the tee you that cambridge analytica was one of thousands of...

Week was worth $20 billion. >> you think they don't care? >> i think the data policy has been only exploitive and incredibly irresponsible. >> irresponsible. that's how she put what facebook has put forward with cambridge's lax approach. and what facebook did with the data and whether any of this could be bound up in the big question of russian meddling. >> facebook gave probably thousands of different companies access to this data. we were only asked in december of 2015 about seven months later, if we still possessed that data and were asked to delete it in january 2016. i guarantee you that ...

And have you ever nearly posted something a little snarky on facebook and then quickly changed your mind? facebook saying it stores every post you write up even if you don't hit the publish button. the company claims years agree to this in the site's data policy. but many are complaining saying tracking people's unpublished thoughts is just creepy. and that's tonight's speed read. a senior white house adviser is on the defense walking back controversial comments me about the gop. in an interview, skron podesta saying the gop is a cult worthy of jonestown. the site of a mass suicide attempt i...

Have no idea. and if i'm wrong on that, you are able -- you are telling me, i think, that you are able to supply those figures to us. at least as of this point. >> mr. chairman, i will have my team follow up with you on what information we have. >> okay. but right now you have no certainty of whether or not how much of that is going on, right? okay. facebook collects massive amendments of data from consumers including content, networks, contact lists, device information, location and information from third parties. yet, your data policy is only a few pages long and provides consumers with only...