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Was one week ago today that the world's toughest data protection wall took effect and it was right here in the european union the general data protection protection regulation the g d p r has been praised and criticize supporters hailing it as the new global standard forcing tech companies to treat private data of users as more than just a commodity and critics claim that it adds another layer of bureaucracy that can only stifle small and midsize businesses in the e.u. and it comes in the wake of the things books cambridge analytical scandal which has shaken user trust in high tech companies i...

They're planning to alert users how? >> you'll see a link at the top of the news feed and will show what apps you're using and how to remove those apps and what data you're sharing. as part of that, they'll tell you if your information was part of this 87 million number, if it was improperly shared with cambridge analytica. that's all happening today. i think people are anxiously waiting i will say this, there has been the whole delete facebook movement, and people talking about this, people aren't deleting facebook. the numbers haven't really been impacted by this. but it will be interesting ...

And you know, as uncomfortable as it is for me to do, you know, a tv interview, it's -- i think this is an important thing that as a discipline for what we're doing. i should be out there and being asked hard questions. >> reporter: now he'll have his chance on a public stage where lawmakers will be challenging the company about its tactics, its future. about the implications of technology that's become the underlayer to many of our lives. a source tells me zuckerberg has been prepping for this moment. he's obviously not the first ceo to face harsh questioning on a public stage. this is really...

That's not saying that it is, but as many as it could be. they don't want to have to walk back. you're already losing user trust. you say 50 million and weeks later we hear 87 million, that obviously doesn't look good for the company. they also talked about numbers and how many of those numbers were american. 82% of the people impacted by this breach of trust as he likes to call it, were american. 70 million people roughly. quite a bit. on this call, quite a few journalists asked, will you step down, brianna. he said no, you learn from your mistakes. he started off by let me be clear, we didn'...

Investigation into every app that had access to a large amount of data. >> do you have any scale or any scope of what you expect to find? >> we're going to review thousands of apps, so this is going to be an intensive process, but this is important. this is something that in retrospect we clearly should have done up front with cambridge analytica. we should not have trusted the certification that they gave us and we're not going to make that mistake again. >> reporter: so zuckerberg talking a lot about trust, talking about trust with third party companies, the apps that maybe you're taking a q...