tell donald trump, if anything, about what cambridge analytica was doing. that is crucial because then that ties into -- back into the russian efforts. you know, this is an important little dot being connected here, i think. >> and then we have to remember that kilimnick is also charged in the same case as paul manafort now in the two witness tampering charges. but that gets you -- that gets you back to russian intelligence. and then this guy, patton, basically one of the charges in there that i guess he didn't plead guilty for or did but they're not going to charge him for is the campaign donation to the presidential inaugural committee. someone from ukraine wanted to come, couldn't buy the tickets because that's illegal, had a straw purchaser, so that gets us back to what did the presidential inaugural committee know. >> remember, rick gates was a big part of the inaugural committee. >> exactly. so it becomes the mafia investigation. little things, little things, little things, to get to the big fish. >> matthew, i still to this day am not sure, if there

a successful theatre groups come to edinburgh as well the cambridge footlights are taking their show pillow talk on a world tour the group from cambridge university was founded in one thousand nine hundred three and it's steeped in tradition. every year the company's lineup changes. stars like john cleese stephen fry and emma thompson were first discovered here the show's humor is typically british black and merciless. they didn't even have to drum up an audience. it's so much easier to sell people recognise things like this and think about i reckon i know loads of people who come up that i know at the top side which i watch and that's to try and then they kind of then come to see the next at that kind of complement. they come from a great tradition and face high expectations. such famous predecessors are a tough act for the new to follow.

cambridge analytica got deep data on 150 million american voters. that is a lot of voters, almost all of the actual voters and that was a massive scandal. this researcher at university of cambridge got the data and handed it to facebook because facebook had no control over who took the data out and it seems the way the story ran out, this was a massive meltdown. it really wasn't. this was a reflection of facebook policy from 2010-2015. facebook encouraged application developers to take all the data about all of us out of facebook and use it to target ads and use facebook and more creative way. it thoroughly encouraged other websites and applications to connect itself to the facebook ecosystem and be dependent on facebook. it was policy from 2010-2015, everyone who follows social media new this. a lot of us raise questions and got no response. in 2012, the obama campaign had an application on people's phones that you could use if you were a volunteer and you login with facebook credentials and not only would your facebook data be shared with the obam

vaidhyanathan: cambridge analytica was a great story. it brought to public attention that facebook had encouraged applicatation developers to get maximal access to facebook data, not just from the people who volunteered to be watched. , but all of their friends. thousands of application developers got almost full access to millions of facebook users for five years. this was basic facebook policy. this line was lost in the storm over cambridge analytica. bybridge analytica was run bond villains. they look evil, they work for evil people. steve bannon helped run the company, it is paid for by robert mercer, one of the more evil hedgege fund managers in te united states. cruz'srked for ted campaign and then for the breakfast campaign and for campaign,mp -- brexitt and for donald trump's campaign. the fact is that cambridge analytica is kind of a joke. it did not actually accomplish anything. push this weird psychometric model for voter behavior prediction, which no one believes works. the fact is the trump campaign, the ted cruz campaign, a

real easy to say that cambridge analytic of is a bad actor stealing data. cambridge analytic pistol that data instead of facebook is the data away and didn't really care who while scott of which was the case. facebook now has to deal with a series of crises that strike at the core of its business and facebook will please you to believe and most importantly like senator mark warner to believe that it is a series of fixable glitches. they just need to sand the rough edges. mark warner is smart enough to know that it's not the case. we will see over the next couple years a couple of credit times to ran facebook and that though probably not go anywhere for some time. >> kind of speaking to that directly having read the book, it seems like there is this techno- determinism in the book once you implement the technology in this techno- optimism and everything keeps getting better. can you talk more about the idea . >> one of my mentors years ago and another call to not believe. his mentor and the idea was than human beings are completely different animals. that's

but i really want to applaud the duke of cambridge very much for his personal words.k to him? why do you clearly feel so passionately that his involvement is so important?” feel so passionately that his involvement is so important? i felt that everyone was waiting, we were all waiting for him and others, but, i don't know, ijust felt that all waiting for him and others, but, i don't know, i just felt that when he arrived we became focused. and i was very appreciative of your own prime minister and her concluding quotes from lloyd george to say we must end this war. it was it a nice framework and i appreciated that. my grandfather was not a part of this particular campaign although he was a tanker, the tank commander for america, and obviously he would have been tactically involved and later on of course with offensives, but i just wanted to say that our is positioned to date was really wonderfully given to us by the whole ceremony. and an awful lot of the work you do i know it's about reminding people and reminding the next generation of the importance of military his

after the revelations about facebook allow user data be shared with firms like cambridge analytical earlier this year people all around the world were in an uproar facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg testified before the u.s. house and senate and in the u.k.'s parliament and importantly at the end of may the european union finalized what is known as a general data protection regulation or g.d.p. are our regular boom busters may recall that we had privacy expert miles edwards on the program to explain g.d.p. art he did a splendid job well now legislation or deuced in the u.s. congress would do some of what g.d.p. are has done in the states and we are fortunate to have with us again global regulatory authority miles edwards miles thank you so much for being here well thank you part for inviting me back but it's such an interesting and important topic for us as consumers but for these big businesses these big bank stocks etc so let's start with this senate bill introduced by democrat amy club a char and republican john kennedy the it's a called a social media privacy protection and consumer rights

a battle whose significance was underlined by the duke of cambridge. experience of those involved during the historic summer of 1918. to honour the fallen of all nations. the amiens attacks were planned to the last detail as the clock ticked down, commanders penned theirfinal messages. every man will carry on to the utmost of his powers until his goal is won. to those who fall, i say will you not die, but step into immortality. by lunchtime on the first day, men could hardly believe the contrast with the chaos of previous offensives. the americans swept everything before them and the german resistance collapsed. the sun broke through, we began to see the countryside that we hadn't seen for quite some time. it was unscarred. all sorts of cultivated land. we began to feel, byjove, the war's coming to an end. at least 30,000 german lives were lost, thousands more surrendered, convincing commanders that that the time had come to consider a ceasefire. age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will r

a battle whose significance was underlined by the duke of cambridge.ce of those involved during the historic summer of 1918. to honour the fallen of all nations. the amiens attacks were planned to the last detail as the clock ticked down, commanders penned theirfinal messages. every man will carry on to the utmost of his powers until his goal is won. to those who fall, i say will you not die, but step into immortality. by lunchtime on the first day, men could hardly believe the contrast with the chaos of previous offensives. the americans swept everything before them and the german resistance collapsed. the sun broke through, we began to see the countryside that we hadn't seen for quite some time. it was unscarred. all sorts of cultivated land. we began to feel, byjove, the war's coming to an end. at least 30,000 german lives were lost, thousands more surrendered, convincing commanders that that the time had come to consider a ceasefire. age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember t

so i came to i came to cambridge as an actual cambridge student to say i belong here my first week iwent to my lecture that really blew my mind because the whole point of positive liberty is yes if you are tied up you cannot do something that positive liberty says there are obstacles that people have that our internal existing only in the mind if you are tied up maybe you cannot go outside but if you believe someone outside is going to shoot you it doesn't matter if they are there or not you still can't go outside so the idea what might be the most important thing to determine how much freedom you have could be in your own mind never accrued to me. around this time there was a song a song by someone i had never heard of i got of stress with the lyrics free yourself from mental slavery none better cells can free our minds. so that i then i ended up reading about bob marley and the cancer he had and these doctors told him he needed to amputate his toes so he didn't and what happened was he died and he was young and i realize that i had stopped in my dad's view of doctors and hospitals.

he was invited to one of his cambridge intelligence seminars and that's where page befriended halper.hey became very close. he was continually asking carter page questions, asking him about his thoughts on russia, asking him about this and that. >> sean: did the spy in the trump campaign have connections to russia? >> this is what's even morey interesting. stefan halper has direct ties to russian intelligence because at his cambridge intelligence seminars, twice invited the former -- >> sean: slow down. he invited the russians to the seminars. a spy in the trump campaign. and then the client -- >> accidentally stumbled on it. he was doing his job at the pentagon. >> accidentally stumbled on it. he was going through contracts and he realized here's thiss professor who is basically getting over a million dollars in contracts to write reports? i don't understand what's going on here. >> sean: $2,000 a page, the report said.ag that's a lot of money, good work if you can get it. >> and nobody gets that money. that's almost impossible. >> sean: so stefan halper isis now then also -- he has

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gdpr plays into a larger national conversation which is the new california privacy law, gdpr and cambridge analytic has perfect storm one year ago we still the omelette is still privacy law in my lifetime. it will happen that people were very skeptical even six months ago but then you see that and emerging technologies and where are our privacy protections and that reflects a lack of control over your digital identity and people want to know that there are guardrails on one side of what can be done and on the other side whether dna or data if you are in a hiring decision. and what the europeans have done that may not work because once the data is out there like you saw with t9 cambridge analytics it is hard to get that back. >>host: do you agree? >> what i was alluding to before before this interesting discussion other than europe one is in the united states is happening in california but also in a real way here in washington moving to federally that is an interesting set. but we as an organization are also looking with those discussions that are happening throughout america and asia and t

cambridge had just changed the place where you put your sticker. it is up until last year, you put your sticker on the back of the car. this year, you know, it's in the front of the car. honestly, you know, you see all the stickers on the back. you could tell someone has been there for like 15 years. we do have cars where there are 15 years of stickers on the back. my sticker is on the windshield. i said it is right here. she clearly didn't believe me. she said what color is it? i said to her, you know, i said, why do you want to know? she said i'm protecting people. i said i don't think you are protecting people. i think you are harassing people. and then she immediately says, you know, what do you mean i'm harassing people? you go home. go back to where you came from. just like that. it is amazing. the answer is it depends on who you are talking to. there's a general culture and there's always some undertone. >> you have referred to yourself as an immigrant. weren't you born in new york city? >> daughter of immigrants. yes, i was born in long isl

cambridge just this year changed the places we put your sticker. up until last you put your sticker on the back of the car. this year the site of the corporate honestly you can see all the stickers on the back, you can tell soma has been the public 15 years. my stickers and when should i say it's right here. she clearly didn't believe me. what caller is it? i said to her, you know, why don't you, why do you want to know? why should i tell you? she said i'm protecting people. and i said i don't think you're protecting people. i think you are harassing people. she merely says what you mean on harassing people? you go home, go back from where you came from. just like that. so the answer is i think this is true of all places that are two faces, depends on who you're talking to, a general culture and there's always some undertone. >> host: you repurchase of as an immigrant a couple times. were you not born in new york city? >> guest: daughter of immigrants. i was born in long island. i am second-generation. did i say i'm an immigrant? i usually don't le

and it was just little heard of from oxford or cambridge. and it wasjust little me.get their heads around it. they didn't know what it was. and thankfully, what i did, instead of turning around that the publisher in london with it, ijust said, stop, go away, write another book, do the best you can but make it completely different. which was every day is mother's day. yes, a contemporary novel, short, funny. if that didn't work, i would have thought i was deluded myself and stopped. but fortunately it did take. so the first decade, 12 years of my writing, was a very rocky. my morale sank sometimes. i needed a lot of self belief to keep going. but once every day is mother's day it's the right desk, and that was the desk of the literary agent who still looks after me, everything went swimmingly. comparatively. yes. and finally, a place of greater safety was published. it was, and it w011 safety was published. it was, and it won the sunday express book of the year prize. and ifelt won the sunday express book of the year prize. and i felt vindicated, innocence. i mean, yo

a successful theater groups come to edinburgh as well the cambridge footlights are taking their show pillow talk on a world tour the group from cambridge university was founded in one thousand nine hundred three and it's steeped in tradition. every year the company's lineup changes. stars like john cleese stephen fry and emma thompson were first discovered here the show's humor is typically british xeni black and merciless. they didn't even have to drum up an audience. it's so much easier to sell these people recognise me and think about my back i know the lives of people who come up that i know and it's not every child watching this to try and then they kind of then come to see the next that kind of problem or . they come from a great tradition and face high expectations. such famous predecessors are a tough act for the new to follow. you know only for bow the same evening just a few minutes walk farther on and the dean will soon find out how effective the publicity for broken romantics was. the house is two thirds full that's relatively good. the audience is taken on a journey thro

talk on a world tour the group from cambridge university was founded in one thousand nine hundred three and it's steeped in tradition. every year the company's lineup changes. stars like john cleese stephen fry and emma thompson were first discovered here the show's humor is typically british say you need black and merciless. they didn't even have to drum up an audience. it's so much easier to sell people recognize when they live and think about i reckon i know the lives of people who come up to it i know at the top side which i was and they're still right and then they kind of then come see the next that kind of problem or. they come from a great tradition and faith ha expectational. such famous predecessors are a tough act for the new york sambal to follow. up you don't leave on bo. the same evening just a few minutes walk farther on emma dean will soon find out how effective their publicity for broken romantics was. the house is two thirds full that's relatively good. the audience has taken on a journey through lovesickness suffering and confidence the message is simple a broken hear

so folks will recall stefan helper now stefan halper he was at the university of cambridge and he met with carter paige other members of the trumpet administration he first met around july eleventh and twelfth and twenty sixteen and this was a few weeks before the f.b.i. opened its investigation into allegations of possible collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government now harper's role as a f.b.i. and cia informant was later revealed in may and it turns out that some of the information that has been collected by robert muller for his investigation of donald trump was provided by this individual stefan halper from cambridge now what's interesting now is that we're now hearing about another individual adam a lot of injure now adam a lot of injure he was working for the pentagon a long time strategist been there twelve years and he raised the fact that this individual stefan helper had received over a million dollars in contracts over the course of four years and it wasn't clear exactly what he was doing now at love and you're raised this point and he was fired this is

. >> like those trader types one is a cambridge a cambridge physicist one is oxford. [laughter] and the liquidity provision. but did so in a way that they were putting in these orders for shares. and the reason there is another group of physicists somewhere in the world to check to see if they buy them. and most useless work they could imagine. but the most interesting thing in that state education to that tertiary education and with those chatterbox for trade. and in st. petersburg and there are three of him with those mathematicians. and then doing software for walmart. and the wall street derivatives. >> and looking at what they could have done. and those that could cure your cancer. this is the end of the book and just skipping to that i come out with universal basic income and one of the arguments that i make is that one of the objections figuring out what you want to do with your life that people are lazy and don't want to work we know that's not true if they just give people the money likely will be bad poets and then we just described youtube. but that is inte

we know that cities like london and cambridge, for instance, are particularly reliant on eu workers. ten of the workforce in these cities and the share of these workers are higher in some sectors. do you think... how did you come up with a two year plan? why is two years important? in the event of a two years important? in the event of 3110 two years important? in the event of a no deal scenario, we think it is important to ensure there is still that transition phase. of course, if there is a deal with the eu that is likely to be around a two year period. we are calling on the government to ensure that in a no deal scenario, we have still got a period of time to allow a new immigration system to be designed that works for all parts of the uk and to ensure that businesses have certainty going forward, that they are going to be able to access the skills and workers they need. the government insists there will not be a cliff edge. it says that future policy will take into account any economic impact. what you say to that? of course, there is no need to bea that? of course, there is no n

may not work in the data context because once the data is out there and misused as we have seen in cambridge analytica is hard to get it back, maybe more guidance on the front end is what's called for here in the united states. >> host: do you agree with that? >> that's sort of what i was alluding to before when i said interesting decisions happening in places other than europe, one of the places is here in the united states, it's happening both in california but also starting to happen in a real way here in washington in terms a move toward federal privacy law and i think that's a really interesting set of discussions and i think there's real value there but, you know, again, we as an organization are global and companies are global and we are looking and following closer the discussions in latin america, asia, recently big milestone in japan, i consider big milestone between japan and european union coming to an agreement that japan's system is what's called adequate but essentially is recognized by the european union as a really strong system which it is. the japanese system is different

a battle whose significance was underlined by the duke of cambridge.ore about the experience of those involved during the historic summer of 1918. to honour the fallen of all nations. the amiens attacks were planned to the last detail. as the clock ticked down, commanders penned their final messages. "every man will carry on to the utmost of his powers until his goal is won." "to those who fall, i say will you not die, but step into immortality." by lunchtime on the first day, men could hardly believe the contrast with the chaos of previous offensives. "the americans swept everything before them and the german resistance colla psed." "the sun broke through, we began to see the countryside that we hadn't seen for quite some time. it was unscarred. all sorts of cultivated land. we began to feel, byjove, the war's coming to an end." at least 30,000 german lives were lost, thousands more surrendered, convincing commanders that that the time had come to consider a ceasefire. age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. at the going down of the sun and i

me that's a job yeah that's as close because there's only cambridge and oxford and those are the only two universities where you can go to and then get a job that pays more than minimum wage or you're working for delivery room so this is just virtue signalling by the people in the bureaucracy trying to make pretend that there is some kind of egalitarianism in the u.k. that allows for advancement of people willing to work hard that's false it's a rigid class structure it's almost as bad as the indian untouchables when it's living up in the caste system if you're too slow smain cuny and you're not going to end up workin for the b.b.c. that's never going to happen so let's see what's under this one ok underneath here oh this is. clinton and you also ok this was a very famous period in the collapse of the soviet union when america rigged that election to put their man in yeltsin who then gave away the country to frickin oligarchs which pretty much destroyed everything for a while before putin kamal i know that you were educated at n.y.u. in our university system here and i could say that

so cambridge analytic.com hold of the information on 150 million american voters. that's a lot of voters. almost all of the actual voters and that was a massive scandal. a researcher at the university got the data and handed it over because they have no control over who took the data out and it seemed a way the story ran that this was a massive meltdown and a big one off but it wasn't. it was a reflection of the policy between 2010 and 2015. they encourage them to take the data about all of us out of facebook and use it to target ads and spread the buz love arod the web for instance. it's thoroughly encouraged other websites and applications to connect itself to the ecosystem. it was policy everybody that followed closely nune closely nt will us raise questions and got no response. in 2012, the obama campaign had an application that you could use if you were a volunteer. not only with your data be shared all of your friends and pretty soon without even knowing they were getting if they had all of the data on all of the american. amazing how much they had in 2012. t

i haven't experienced racism at cambridge myself, but it does not mean that no one else has.s entering colleges if you are a person of colour. thank you very much. great to see photographs of getting your degrees. congratulations. the sky is the limit, as you say. thank you. postjeremy corbyn has told bbc news that he didn't know anything about the background of a seniorfigure in a palestinian figure that he appeared alongside in 2014. he attended an event with maher al—taher, who is in a group linked toa al—taher, who is in a group linked to a terror attack on a jewish synagogue in 2014. let's get more on this. what have we been hearing from mr corbyn? jeremy corbyn has come under a lot of criticism about this trip to chew on match easier. it was a trip as part of a palestinian rights conference. there had been a wreath laying where it was near memorials with people accused of a terrorist attack. mr corbyn has maintained that he was there to honour the victims of a 1985 israeli air strike but now what has emerged isa air strike but now what has emerged is a photograph with a

a battle whose significance was underlined by the duke of cambridge.f those involved during the historic summer of 1918. to honour the fallen of all nations. the amiens attacks were planned to the last detail. as the clock ticked down, commanders penned their final messages. every man will carry on to the utmost of his powers until his goal is won. to those who fall, i say will you not die, but step into immortality. by lunchtime on the first day, men could hardly believe the contrast with the chaos of previous offensives. the americans swept everything before them and the german resistance collapsed. the sun broke through, we began to see the countryside that we hadn't seen for quite some time. it was unscarred. all sorts of cultivated land. we began to feel, byjove, the war's coming to an end. at least 30,000 german lives were lost, thousands more surrendered, convincing commanders that that the time had come to consider a ceasefire. age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. at the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember the

what he calls the astronomically outrageous contracts that are be given being given to a former cambridge professor stefan helper he's basically saying look we're giving this guy over six million dollars and what is he actually doing now this is the exchange this is his attorney jim baker the director kept hope of contracts very close to the vest and nobody seems to have any idea what he was doing the time he contracted out a good chunk of it of the academics he composed them all and then collect the balance as his fee as a middle. so adam levin ger is then stripped of his security clearance now his boss who was appointed by obama has four big complaints against him he says that he made an unauthorized trip to israel he was he was taking home on classified academic papers that he was reading classified material on an airplane and that he had an authorized contacts with the government of india however love injured then files a whistleblower retaliation complaint saying that essentially he's being retaliated against for complaining about these outrageous contracts given to stefan halper now

once the data is out there and it has been misused as we have seen in the cambridge analytic a context, it is hard to get a back and it is hard to fix it on the backend. maybe more guidance on the front end is what is called for in the united states. host: do you agree? victoria: that is what i was alluding to before when i said there is -- there are interesting discussions happening. one of those places is here in the united states. that is happening in california. it is also starting to happen in a real way here in washington. in terms of the move toward a federal privacy law. i think that is a really interesting set of discussions. i think there is some real value there. again, we as an organization are global. our companies are global. we are also looking and following closely to privacy discussions happening throughout latin america, asia. there is a big milestone in japan. i consider it to be a big milestone between japan and the european union, coming to an iseement that japan's system what is called adequate. but essentially it is recognized by the european union has a really s

twenty sixteen digital team in cambridge on this week to help the russians figure out how to tell a good mate he's campaigned on facebook. the team will work on algorithms that root out in civility and intolerance on twitter and assess the extent to which people engage with different viewpoints but austin peterson claims the platform despite what it says is actually making a concerted effort to censor certain ideas and talking points. we don't have free speech in the united states in order to be able to discuss the whether we have free speech the united states so that we can discuss very controversial things i don't mind if a social media network has a bias i assume a bias but what i prefer is transparency about that bias twitter suppresses conservative and libertarian voices from being able to get their message out because they have a bias and it's deeply disturbing and a threat to american democracy. turkey's foreign ministry has lambasted u.s. plans to sanction two turkish government ministers on qur'an has called on washington to reverse its decision the punitive measures came in res

will be a more competitive economy that's a job yeah that's a clear job because there's only cambridge and oxford and those are the only two universities where you can go to and then get a job that pays more than minimum wage or if you're working for delivery room so this is just virtue signalling by the people in the bureaucracy trying to make pretend that there is some kind of egalitarianism in the u.k. that allows for advancement of people willing to work hard that's false it's a rigid class structure it's almost as bad as the indian untouchables when it's living up in the caste system if you're too slow smain cuny and you're not going to end up working for the b.b.c. that's never to going. and so let's see what's under this one ok underneath here oh this is. clinton and yeltsin ok this was a very famous period in the collapse of the soviet union when america rigged that election to put their man in yeltsin who then gave away the country to frickin oligarchs which pretty much destroyed everything for a while before putin kamal i know that you were educated and why you in our univers

trump's twenty sixteen digital team and cambridge on this week to help the russians figure out how to tell gates late he's campaigned on facebook. while the team will work on algorithms not rooted in civility and intolerance on twitter and assess the extent to which people engage with different viewpoints often peterson claims though that the platform despite what it says' is actually making a concerted effort to censor certain ideas on talking points. we don't have free speech in the united states in order to be able to discuss the whether we have free speech so that we can discuss very controversial things i don't mind if a social media network has a bias i assume a bias but what i prefer is transparency about that bias twitter suppresses conservative and libertarian voices from being able to get their message out because they have a bias and it's deeply disturbing and a threat to american democracy. the state capital of texas may have to rethink its name a report by the equity office in austin suggest taking a closer look because the city's named after a supporter of slavery now it