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There. ainsley: great story about ex-boyfriend what you found on his phone? >> oh, yeah u. ainsley: story about your dad getting addicted to super mario brothers. >> my dad the least tech savvy guy in the world he got addicted. i was trying to show people it can happen to anyone, you are totally in power and in control. don't let your kids loses important skill sets testimony that of us that had in our lives growing up. brian: let's go back to drugs and alcohol. >> there are detox for tech addiction. that's how bad it is. ainsley: you don't really mean that let's just clarify he doesn't really...

Psychiatrists use specifically carve out that there is not really a diagnosis called tech addiction. now there are a couple of diagnoses that they think are worth investigating. t and those are problematic internet use and internet gaming disorder. those sorts of problems are thought to affect up to maybe 8%.gh the numbers differ from 4% to about 9% or 10% of american youth. but, whether that's an addiction in the same way opioid is an addiction, you are looking at 116 americans killed every day on average by opioids. nobody would say that cell phones are killing 116 people a day. >> tucker: o...

Current manual that psychiatrists use specifically carve out that there is not really a diagnosis called tech addiction. now, there are a couple of diagnoses that they think are worth investigating. and those are problematic internet use and internet gaming disorder. those sorts of problems are thought to affect up to maybe 8%. the numbers differ from 4% to about 9% or 10% of american youth. but, whether that's an addiction in the same way opioid is an addiction. you are looking at 116 americans killed every day on average by opioids. nobody would say that cell phones are killing 116 people a ...

>> and in privacy and in -- in manipulation of platforms in tech addiction but can the regulators -- they've passed many times on regulation. not in europe, not like others are firm around data privacy and all kinds of things, it is just the will of government to do something about this. and the knowledge to do something. >> i had somebody suggest to me that they ought to use the super fund model. meaning you basically -- you tell an equifax, okay, you got to pay a gigantic fine every time you have a breach. so that, boy, you've got to spend whatever it takes to prevent breaches and financiall...

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