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Bring some of your information and some of your friends information is how we explained it would work. people had settings to that effect. we explained and they consented to it working that way. the system basically worked as it was designed. the issue is that we designed the system in a way that wasn't good. now, starting in 2014, we have changed the design of the system so it restricts the data access a developer can get. >> the 300,000 people that they were treated in a way that was appropriate. they consented to. you are not suggesting the friends consented. >> senator, i believe that we r...

Facebook developer platform. the idea was that you wanted to make more experiences social. for example, you might want to have a calendar that has your friend's birthdays on it or you might want your address book to have your friends pictures in it or you might want to map it to show your friends addresses. in order to do that, we needed to build a tool that would allow people to sign into an app and bring some of their information and some of their friends information to those apps. we made it very clear this is how it worked. when people signed up for facebook, they signed up for that as wel...