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Delete face templates for more than a billion users. what does that mean? faces, photos, and videos will no longer be automatically recognized on facebook. that change comes after a judge rules the company should cough up $650 million in a class action lawsuit for using face tags and other biometic data without user permission. of course that announcement also coming on the heels of several hearings on capitol hill as well. we expect to hear perhaps more from facebook and instagram and what's app all owned by facebook and others. that will do it for me this hour, up next, dr. francis collins, ...

Access to information without user permission and it did not violate a 2011 agreement with the federal trade commission. joining me now to take a closer look at this is the co-founder of the private equity firm elevation partners and early investor of facebook. he's the author of the new book you have to read called zuc k'd, waking up to the facebook catastrophe. congratulations on the book. there's so much stuff you tackle that we've been talking about a long time. i want to talk to you about mark zuckerberg saying last week, i understand many people don't think facebook can or would even wan...

Republican mega donor robert mercer partnered with british behavioral research company scl group. he financed $1.5 million pilot program led by scl elections director which would later become cambridge analytica. right around that time facebook allowed apps on its site to collect profile and friend list data with user permission. the practice stopped in mid 2014 but some apps were given a short grace period. in june, 2014 then scl employee christopher wylie found alexander hogan to develop an o app to deploy on facebook. that month robert mer se invested $15 million to formally create cambridg...

Data now? >> ceo mark zuckerberg could be called to capitol hill to explain. >> we need to find out what we can about the miss appropriation of the private information of tens of millions of americans. >> the company faces two critical questions. one, that i failed to report the unauthorized access to the federal government as required? and did it obtain user permission before sharing personal information? >> the key issue is not so much whether the methodology that cambridge analytica touted, whether it mattered, the key issue is that the data were available to the trump campaign. >> this is ...