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But the u.s. news out with tech crunch saying facebook has been paying users as young as thirteen years old for access to their private data ok so tell me one thing howard how do thirteen year olds how are they able to even pay for something to begin with and how do they have private data right guy and i think that's really why this story has caught on because it goes as young as thirteen years old i mean we heard about the scandal as well as of kids paying a lot of money for games they were realizing they're paying for but anyway this is going on for a couple of years now using what's called ...

Young as 13 for complete access to their data. the facebook research app provided users with a vpn or virtual private network that gave facebook access to everything on a user's phone, including private messages, e-mails, web searches, and internet browsing activity. now, vpns are not inherently bad. they're frequently used by people and companies to protect data but in this case, according to tech crunch, facebook was using them to collect the data of everyone who downloaded the app. facebook said it will no longer run the program on apple products and issued this statement, saying, "like man...

One app. both your texts and your facebook messages in one place. we also allow people the option of. >> you can opt in or out of it. >> it is opt in. you have to affirmatively say that you want to sync that information before you get access. >> unless you opt in, you don't collect that call and text mystery? >> is correct. >> is that true for -- is this practice done at all with minors or do you make an exception there for persons age 13 to 17? >> i do not know we can follow up on that. >> okay. let's do that. there have been reports that facebook can track a user's internet browsing activity...

To sync their text messages into the mesennisaging app. it makes it so you can have one app that has both your texts and your facebook messages in one place. we also allow people the option of -- >> you could opt in or out of that? >> yes. it is opt in. you have to affirmatively say you want to sync that information before we get access. >> unless you opt in, you don't collect that call and text history? >> that is correct. >> is that true for -- is this practice done at all with minors or do you make an exception there for persons age 13 to 17? >> i do not know. we can follow up on that. >> l...