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>> dana: back now to my interview with mark zuckerberg. i asked him about privacy and whether people can feel safe with their information online. i asked him what is the biggest problem he's trying to sow right now. here's what he said. >> right now, the balance that i'm trying to get right is while we're working through some of these big social issues, around speech and content and privacy and data portability, i want to make sure that we continue to defend people's ability to have a voice and stand up for free expression. it is absolutely -- we are at across roads now not only in our country...

Consumer data, to antitrust issues. that highlights the fundamental tension that exists between washington, d.c. and silicon valley companies like facebook which is that lawmakers have so many issues they'd like to address, and yet it is proven to be such a challenge for them to go about the business of actually regulating facebook. obviously some form of regulation is coming. mark zuckerberg wants to have a seat at the table. he articulated as much six months ago in an op-ed in "the washington post." that's why he's here now in washington meeting with lawmakers. >> anna, as dylan just mention...

Mark zuckerberg recently wrote in the "washington post" saying in part by updating the rules for the internet we can preserve what's best about it, the firemen people express themselves and for entrepreneurs to build new things while also protecting society from broader harms. from what i've learned i believe we need new regulation in four areas harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. and other execs also are speaking out. >> i think it's important to make sure that we are also able to create a healthy competitive ecosystem in which other companies are able to emerge...

National levels should be the lowest bar we have. we have strong privacy legislation in this country. that needs to be passed. there's other issues around disclosure and political advertising disclosure. they should be disclosing a lot of advertising data portability. the ability to move your data. the ability to know what happens to your data when it goes to third parties. all kinds of things that are difficult. this is billions and billions of transactions every minute going on on these platforms. it's a very large problem. >> thank you. dylan, quickly. does zuckerberg still have the locke...

Analytica, you don't even know how it's used after you sell it. can you tell us why this isn't hypocritical? >> senator, once again, we don't sell any data to anyone. we don't sell it to advertisers and we don't sell it to developers. what we allow is for people to sign in to absent bring their data. used to be the data of some of their friends, but now it isn't, with them. that makes sense. that's a sick data portability. you own the data. you should be able to take it. >> do you believe you are more responsible for data than the federal government would be? >> yes, but senator , your poit ab...