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Simple. it says look, facebook has to tell you what it is doing and it has to write it in plain english. it has to give you the chance to opt out of sharing your data and it has to tell you if you want to opt in, rather, and you change your mind, you can opt out later. it has got to tell you if your data has been breached within 72 hours. and it's got to present all this on the website so you can find it easily and understand it when you find it. right now to do all the stuff you need on facebook you've got to run all over hell and half of georgia to find all the right buttons. >> sandra: it i...

Incentives like most fake news is. this leads to ad farms and we can remove it. the other thing we're trying to do is give people context. if we have indications that a news story on facebook might be false, we're providing related articles from around the internet. >> where do you get the content? >> people can report stories. to us as fake news through the site. we work with third party fact checking organizations. >> as far as sharing our information now, we have the option to opt out. why wouldn't opt in be the option? when we go on it, we've already opted in. the default is we have opted ...

Facebook to do that already. >> i appreciated. i am talking about a law. would you support a law to ensure kids under 16 have this privacy bill of rights? i had this conversation with you in your office seven years ago about this specific subject in palo alto. and i think that's really what the american people want to know right now. what is protection? what are the protections that are going to be put on the books? especially for children. would you support a privacy bill of rights for kids where opt in is the standard? yes or no? >> it's an important principle. >> do we need a law to protect...

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...

Consent act which i'm joining. don't you agree that companies ought to be required to provide users with clear, plain information about how their data will be used and specific ability to consent to the use of that information? >> senator, i do generally agree with what you are saying. and i laid that out earlier when i talked about. >> would you agree to an opt in as opposed to an opt out? >> senator, i think that that certainly makes sense to discuss. and i think the details around this matter a lot. >> would you agree that users should be able to access all of their information? >> senator,...