s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook data this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage their fifty thousand seventy thousand one hundred thousand people a really big dataset really quickly and it scaled really quickly it we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest ash breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is trending on social media amid calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the break. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook data this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand seventy thousand one hundred thousand people a really big dataset really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest ash breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is the trending on social media and made calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand one hundred thousand people really big data really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is trending on social media and need calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year w

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook data this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage their fifty thousand seventy thousand one hundred thousand people a really big dataset really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest ash breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is like a burger trending on social media amid calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breakage. we realize how important these companies are for example

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally connected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i will need to engage fifty thousand one hundred thousand people a really big data really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is trending on social media and need calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and its investigation whether the company illegally collected the facebook data this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app weak secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage their fifty thousand seventy thousand one hundred thousand people a really big dataset really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest ash breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is trending on social media amid calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections rig

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and its investigation whether the company illegally collected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand one hundred thousand people a really big data really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delete facebook and where is trending on social media and made calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year

now the uk's data protection agency has served a warrant to serve -- search cambridge analytica's company headquarters. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics. he said people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stored private data about the user interface with friends. >> i only need to engage 50,000, 100,000 people to get a really big data amount quickly and it skillfully quickly. we got upwards of 50 million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months. reporter: that is how one of the biggest data breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days. british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and abuse -- accuse facebook hashtags to delete facebook are trending on social media. >> we realize how important these companies are two elections -- to elections. this is the year when politicians have woken up, the public as woken up, and it is time for the tech companies to wake up because if they don't get their act together they are going to space -- fac

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand one hundred thousand people a really big data really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delete facebook and where is trending on social media to meet calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year w

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app weeks secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i will need to engage fifty thousand one hundred thousand people a really big data really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's. been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is trending on social media and made calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year wh

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally connected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand seventy thousand one hundred thousand people a really big data really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is trending on social media amid calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand seventy thousand one hundred thousand people a really big dataset really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest ash breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is like a bigger trending on social media and made calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elec

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app weeks secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand one hundred thousand people a really big data really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple month and that's how one of the biggest breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accused facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is trending on social media and made calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year

one is that we need to create a data protection agency in this country. there is no law that governs the use of data. when you think about it is astounding. secondly, i think we need to think about data in a profoundly different sort of way. companies do not own and the environment. and they do not own our data. the data belongs to us. we can allow them to exploit our data within reason but when they handle our data they are trustees of that data. and because they are trustees we should hold them to very high set of responsibilities for how they manage in exploit that. and then thirdly we just need to bring back the tradition of antitrust that doesn't just worry about mergers but when they are companies that we deem to be too powerful and their markets we did that to at&t. we seriously constrained ibm. and these were all important moments in the history of technology i have another policy question. i'm curious there has been a lot of conversation about that. it regulates the internet. and whether or not things like facebook should be regulated. i'm curiou

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand one hundred thousand people a really big data really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is trending on social media and made calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook data this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage their fifty thousand seventy thousand one hundred thousand people a really big dataset really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest ash breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is trending on social media and made calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies offer example to elections

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and it's investigating whether the company illegally collected the facebook data this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app which secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i only need to engage fifty thousand seventy thousand one hundred thousand people a really big data set really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest ash breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's mark zuckerberg has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accuse facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delayed facebook and where is like a bigger trending on social media amid calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to ele

s data protection agency has social warrant to search cambridge analytic is headquarters and its investigation within the company illegally collected the facebook. this comes after a former employee spilled the beans on the company's tactics he says people were asked to download a facebook app weeks secretly stole private data about the user and their facebook friends i will need to engage fifty thousand one hundred thousand people a really big data really quickly and it scaled really quickly we were able to get upwards of fifty million plus facebook records in the span of a couple months and that's how one of the biggest breaches in facebook's history came about. facebook's has been dodging the media for days british lawmakers have summoned him to appear before a committee and accused facebook of misleading them at a previous hearing the hashtags delete facebook and where is trending on social media and the calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year w

contrast that with other agencies, like the consumer protection bureau, they have a much larger privacy office. the same with hhs, their privacy office. it really is dwarfed by the european regulators who have entire organization set up. there's a question whether the ftc needs a significant increase in resources. there are parts of the digital economy that are not in the ftc's purview. if we are going to get serious about data privacy and security, and we have to come up there has to be a question of whether the ftc is the right agency to do this and if it is, how much more resources does congress need to provide? host: dan in arlington, virginia, a facebook user. caller: good morning. i would be interested in hearing your comments about one area you have not spoken about, the area of personal responsibility. you touched on it. the is a user statement we all signed up for when we voluntarily joined facebook or linked in. what is the responsibility of the individual for a "free service" to understand that the data they are providing is in fact being provided to a company? single usernk

jason: and you've heard about the epa, how about the digital protection agency? that is ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ jason: we are here with editor joel weber. talking about this week's issue. joel, from the top, the biggest business story of the week's facebook. >> you can't not talk about that

jason: and you've heard about the epa, how about the digital protection agency? that is ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ jason: we are here with editor joel weber. talking about this week's issue. joel, from the top, the biggest business story of the week's facebook. >> you can't not talk about that this week. this started about a week ago. it just kept coming and did not go away. we were thinking about what we were going to do on the cover, and there was no way we could not do something iconic about facebook. jason: enter paul ford. opening remarks? tell us what he has to say. >> we really wanted to go to paul because he has been such a great voice on technology impacting society. what paul really did well with the story is he advanced the conversation. this is really a moment that in some sense, this is a massive superfund issue. we have data in the open, it is a bigger story than facebook. all of our data is in the open and vulnerable. what are we going to do about it when things like this happen going forward? this is a massive issue. and we have had mu

and of course there's equifax which is both a credit reporting agency and a data broker. equifax's sole mission is using and profiting from consumers' most personal information, and they failed to protect that information. more than 145 million americans' social security numbers, birth dates, addresses and in some instances even driver's license numbers and credit card numbers were compromised because equifax failed to institute even the most basic security protocols. it seems that for the american consumer, every year is the year of the data breach. and they're sick and tired of their information falling into the wrong hands. so as the senate debates how to ensure financial institutions do not endanger the american economy the way they did during the financial crisis, we cannot forget our constituents' calls for new data protection rules. and that is why i have filed my data broker accountability and transparency act as an amendment to this legislation. and i thank senators blumenthal and sanders and whitehouse for joining me. my colleagues and i, republicans and democra

jason: and you've heard about the epa, how about the digital protection agency? that is ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ jason: we are here with editor joel weber. talking about this week's issue. joel from the top, the biggest , business story of the week's facebook. >> you can't not talk about that this week. this started about a week ago. it just kept coming and did not go away. we were thinking about what we were going to do on the cover, and there was no way we could not do something iconic about facebook. jason: enter paul ford. opening remarks? tell us what he has to say. we really wanted to go to paul because he has been such a great voice on technology impacting society. what paul really did well with the story is he advanced the conversation. this is really a moment that in some sense, this is a massive superfund issue. we have data in the open, it is a bigger story than facebook. all of our data is in the open and vulnerable. what are we going to do about it when things like this happen going forward? this is a massive issue. and we have had mult

widely available, while recognizing the need to protect the agency's access to private data? >> yeah, i think -- this is one where cbo really should be congratulated for the enormous advances in the past 15 years in what's available on the internet, what they put up on the website, the capacity to download spread sheets that underlie the mandatory baseline, the budget outlook, things like that. none of that was there. you could continue to do that. and pursue it to every sort of -- digitize every written product they have so the underlying data are there. i have zero problem with any of that. there are going to be things you can't digitize and distribute. there are going to be proprietary data. there is some of that. there are going to be assumptions. so in scoring legislation, you're going to have to assume something about how the executive branch behaves. and there are no models for that. so that those judgments are the things they're going to have to write down. >> mr. chairman, i yield back. >> mr. sanford. from south carolina. >> thank you, chairman. i guess i begin with

available while recognizing the need to protect the agency's access to private data? >> i think this is one where cbo really should be congratulated for the enormous advances in the past 16 years what is available on the internet what they put up on the website, the capacity to download spreadsheets that underline the mandatory baseline, the budget outlook, things like that none of that was there. you could continue to do that and pursue it to every sort of, digitize every written product they have so the underlying data are there. i have zero problem with any of that. there are things you can't digitize and distribute. there will be proprietary data. there is some of that. there will be assumptions. in scoring legislation you will have to assume something about how the executive branch behaves. there are no models for that. so those judgments are the things they are going to have to write down. >> all right. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> mr. sanford. from south carolina. >> thanks, chairman. i guess i begin with you, dr. holtz-eakin. in 2015 you criticized the cbo f

data from the environmental protection agency shows that average surface water temperatures have increased in all five great lakes since 1995. warmer surface water temperatures disrupt the food chain and facilitate the spread of invasive species, threatening our native fish with disease. changing water levels create challenges for property owners and communities along the great lakes. each of these changes will strain our local economies. tourism is also a major part of wisconsin's economy, and the north woods is a beloved place to fish, camp, hunt, and snowmobile, but last year, for only the second time in its 45-year history, wisconsin's famous burkabinder cross country ski race was canceled because of warm temperatures and lack of snow. the impacts on tourism, recreation, and the landscapes that we hold near to our hearts are already here. they will only become more drastic. the threats may be daunting, but we cannot allow the challenges to overwhelm us into inaction. wisconsin's motto is just one word -- forward. the people of wisconsin have never been afraid of the challenges that we

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but once again, this is being done without any adequate data to give to the public. and consequently the public is saying, should we trust the people that are supposed to protect us? >> for the last 20 years, these federal and state agencies, the same ones that have been investigating this problem, have been promoting this process of dumping the coal ash without any safeguards. for them to now, uh, admit that they think that the coal ash is causing these cancers would be to admit that they caused this whole problem in the first place. >> while families wait for answers, toxic ash continues to pile up. back in georgia, people aren't just frustrated about poor regulation, they're claiming that georgia power is trying to hide the problem. georgia power will tell you the 750-acre unlined pond poses no threat to local residents. but behind this good-neighbor disguise, me company actions suggest that they know there is a problem. in the last decade, georgia power bought several homes from residents with particularly poor health. >> my aunt, she was bought out last july. sh

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meanwhile, new data says coal ash -- the residual byproduct of burning coal -- has contaminated ground water with arsenic and radium and other toxic chemicals near coal-l-fired power plants acrossss the country. the new data was released on friday, only one day after the epa administrator scott pruitt said the epa would weaken federal regulations on coal ash disposal. and according to "the new york times" emails sent by utah senator orrin hatch show oil extraction was central in the decision to shrink the bears ears national monument in southeastern utah last year, despite fierce opposition from native americans and environmentalists. one of the emails sent by senator hatch's office to the interior department reads -- "the new boundary depicted on the map would resolve all known mineral conflicts within the bears ears." this email directly contradicts interior secretary ryan zinke's statements last year, in which he claimed, "bears ears isn't really about oil and gas." in kashmir, tens of thousands of people poured into the streets to protest indian rule over the disputed territory aft

meanwhile, new data says coal ash -- the residual byproduct of burning coal -- has contaminated ground water with arsenic and radium and other toxic chemicals near coal-fired power plants across the country. the new data was released on friday, only one day after the epa administrator scott pruitt said the epa would weaken federal regulations on coal ash disposal. and according to "the new york times" emails sent by utah senator orrin hatch show oil extraction was ctral in the decision to shrink the bears ears national monument in southeastern utah last year, despite fierce opposition from native americans and environmentalists. one of the emails sent by senator hatch's office to the interior department reads -- "the new boundary depicted on the map would resolve all known mineral conflicts within the bears ears." this email directly contradicts interior secretary ryan zinke's statements last year, in which he claimed, "bears ears isn't really about oil and gas." in kashmir, tens of thousands of people poured into the streets to protest indian rule over the disputed territory after ind

last week several news agencies reported that cambridge analytica illicitly obtained data on up to 50 million facebook users. used that data to influence voters in our election, presidential election here and uk "brexit" vote which is why the uk pm, theresa may looking into the company as well. there are other news reports, perhaps this is more damaging, facebook had every single in-house tool to be aware of the cambridge analytica data used and facebook didn't follow up and protect its users. that is a huge question mark over that as well. presumably the ftc will be looking into that. either confirm that statement or disprove it. but if the ftc finds that facebook didn't protect its users, it knew what was happening happening with cambridge analyst car, facebook at the very least will have to pay millions of dollars in fines. just as a as a context wahl reminder. this happened in 2011, they questioned facebook on user privacy protocols. facebook said, okay, okay, we'll agree to some user privacy guidelines. that is the second issue ftc will look at with facebook. they will say, did y

of barrel acting head for consumer protection which will look into this question of user data. it'd knowledge it was concerned about the revelation of. stays of weeks and was want to look into this seriously. know about thewe ftc investigation and how it might proceed? sarah's.ere are two first --to certify our sarah frier. sarah: an context of all the work the ftc has done on facebook and not done on facebook and not been on facebook, there was a 2011 consents created that facebook would have with the ftc where it had to alert users if their data was going to be used and get their explicit permission. fined, soey could be the ftc is looking if they deserve to be fined for the data that ended up in the hands of third parties who did not have a consensus to access it. emily: facebook can always put this back on users while he opted in, even if you did not understand what you are opting and for. how do that play in to what the ftc is actually looking into? as sarah mentioned, they did have to get express informed consent so users have to be aware of what they are agreeing to with

." >>> reuters say americans lack trust in protecting personal data only 41% trust facebook to handle the information amazon, microsoft google and yahoo! all ranked higher 60% thought facebook was swarting democracy >>> the chief of the world's largest advertising agency thinkses, fair, that they took time with the information of cambridge analytica gimp how complex the information was. and both advertisers and new media companies like facebook and google have a responsibility to users to make sure they know exactly how data is being used >> the heart of this is about data and data privatcprivacy. and whether the consumer really knows what he and she is letting themselves into. when they opt into those complex agreements that they sign into, you and i, we just say agree and accept, without really knowing what we're letting ourselves up to the company issue is making sure we have an obligations, our clients to make sure the consumer understands explicitly what's going on. >>> switching to european news, german police have car leader on an arrest warrant. his arrest could be on an extra

and police from protecting their french citizens so i fail to see how much more they can do. facebook is facing intense pressure for failing to protect the data of its users after it was claimed the information was stolen and utilized for political gain the tech giant's head admitted that data breach on promise that the company will learn from its mistakes well the british data gathering firm called cambridge on the little guy that mark zuckerberg mentioned there was involved in donald trump's presidential campaign among others on the company allegedly mind fifty million facebook profiles for its operations while its parent company was reportedly involved in psycho social studies for the u.k. defense ministry cambridge analytic is now under investigation and suspended its chief executive and the revelations have led to a trend that will concern facebook famous entrepreneur elon musk deleted his profile as well as the pages of the company's many others are following suit as well as the hush to delete facebook spreads across another platform twitter meanwhile legal a media anal

users' data. they have over a billion users worldwide. people need to understand how their data's being used. >> sandra: the type of money we're talking about -- we're not just throwing hundreds of millions. the agency, the ftc could fine facebook up to $40,000 per violation, per day which is 50 million users involved could add up to millions. they're ruling out the "b" word, billions, but it's no wonder the stock has taken such a drastic hit. it's up 3%. i guess it had to move. >> tim cook had a convenient memory. it wasn't long ago where they were accused of tracking people's geoinformation. and facebook's business model is different. it's free for us to use. unless they're going to charge us they have to monetize somehow and they monetize us looking at advertisement and data is used to drive those advertisements. i think to mack the charges is disingenuous. >> sandra: he did conveniently put a halo over his own head. facebook is announcing it will no longer allow third-party data and it allowed

providing two statistical agencies as well as their personal identifier that's large scale program data that are now under our open data policies being made publicly available. there's a whole set of recommendations to deal with privacy, the report is recommending setting up a national secure data service so that access to these types of files can be more broadly available to the research community and academic settings and at the same time, with a lot of privacy protection being built in, each of the federal departments should have a chief evaluation officer whose responsibility is to make sure that evidence-based practices are being adopted by different problematic agencies within the federal government. the implementation of these recommendations is going to be really important and and fortin step forward. although they were focusing on the statistical agencies, i think it has big implications for data as well. >> i would say statisticians need to be hired more. i think the point that the problem with our lack of reproducibility is our statistical designs and the rigor that we have.