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Health insurance company. and they can sell them the data and the insurance company can either raise your rates or terminate your insurance before you even know you're sick. and that is what the problem is. they have basically declared imminent domain on all of this data. i think that it is time to ask questions like why is it legal to have trade, you know, either a sale or barter, whatever, of credit card information, other financial transactions. why is it legal to do the same thing with data you gather from health products. why is it legal to do that with the geo location data from your sma...

But really now what? >> so we're talking about mark zuckerbe zuckerberg, he's meeting with lawmakers as we speak, planning to testify tomorrow. >> this is like a water shed moment for the company and mark zuckerberg who hasn't been a front facing ceo. he's more comfortable behind the scenes. i interviewed him. he was visibly nervous during our chat. this is a big moment. they have been trying to get ahead of this. they put mark out there quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. they announced more on data transparency, giving user control over that, they have -- on friday, announced a politi...

Somebody if you know what their record is, where you can actually track their location, their history? is that something that they would use in the future? >> that's a great question. this had kind of information has always been available to the government by subpoena. so the information itself is considered pretty bulletproof. so yes, you're right, it might be a great sort of b-script that you can suddenly have your perry mason moment and produce your iphone geolocation logs but cuts both ways. the fact that it is not under user control, the fact that it is there at all is just not -- doesn't...