cambridge and 2015? why did you wait? mark: that is a great question. cambridge analytica was not using our systems in 2015 as far as we can tell. this is clearly one of the questions i asked my team when i learned of this, why did we wait until we've got the reports last month to ban them? , at the time we learned of their activity in 2015 they were not an advertiser and running pages, so we had nothing to ban. >> thank you. now, senator hatch. this is the most intense public scrutiny i have seen for a tech related hearing since the microsoft hearing that i shared back in the late 1990's. the recent stories of cambridge analytica and data mining on social media have raised serious concerns about consumer policy -- privacy. at the same time the store's touch on the foundation of the internet economy, and the way websites that drive our internet economy make money. some professed themselves that companies like facebook and google share user data with advertisers. that any of these individuals didn't stop

john bolton, with the bolton project at cambridge analytica and bolton data at cambridge analytica and his link with the nra and russian politicians, john bolton is right in the middle of this stuff, too. and maybe that's what he's talking with the white house lawyers about, ahead of his start date on monday. but this is starting to get weird. h.r. mcmaster is going out with a bang. john bolton does appear to be on his way in, but i think that is becoming a more complicated prospect than might be broadly appreciated. all right, got lots more to get to tonight, including, i'm very happy to tell you, we have an exclusive interview with someone who has made no public comments since leaving government service months ago. he's going to give his first exclusive tv interview to us tonight. it's a surprise. that's next. stay with us. -if you told me a year ago where i'd be right now... aah! ...i would have said you were crazy. but so began the year of me. i discovered the true meaning of paperless discounts... and the indescribable rush of saving drivers an average of $620. why does fear feel

john bolton, with the bolton project at cambridge analytica and bolton data at cambridged analytica and his link with the russian nra and politicians, john bolton is right in the middle of this stuff, too. and maybe that's what he's talking with the white house lawyers about, ahead of his start date on monday. but this is starting to get wired. -- weird. h.r. mcmaster is going out with a bang. john bolton does appear to be on his way in, but i think that is becoming a more complicated prospect than might be broadly appreciated. all right, got lots more to get to tonight, including, i'm very happy to tell you, we have an exclusive interview with someone who has made no public comments since leaving government service months ago. he's going to give his first exclusive tv interview to us tonight. it's a surprise. that's next. stay with us. just switched to geico and got more. more? they've been saving folks money for over 75 years. a company you can trust. geico even helped us with homeowners insurance. more sounds great. gotta love more... right, honey? yeah! geico. expect great savings a

it also has been reported that he sold this data to cambridge analytica for $800,000.ambridge analytica then took this data and created a psychological welfare tool to influence the united states elections. in fact the ceo of alexander nix, that came bridge analyst can ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and its data, informed all the strategy for the trump campaign. the reporting has also speculated that cambridge analytica works with the internet research agency to help russia identify which american voters to target with its propaganda. i'm concerned that press reports indicate facebook learned about this breach in 2015 but appears to have taken significant steps to address it until this year. this hearing is important. i appreciate the conversation we had yesterday and i believe that facebook through your presence hear today, and words you are about to tell us will indicate how strongly your industry will regulate and or reform the platforms that they control. i believe this is extraordinarily important. you lead a big company with 27,000 employee

so does a spoke have a plan to sue or cambridge university or cambridge analytica for unauthorized access for computer networks or breach of contract why or why not? >> congressman we are lookingra into we already took action by banning him from the platform and we will do a full audit that we go through all thetf data that he has sent to the point of cambridge university there is a whole program associated with cambridge university where a number of researchers not just alexander although he is the only one thatun stole the information but there are other researchers we do have to understand if there was something bad going on a cambridge university overall that require stronger action, to make you mentioned hate between have seen that gail reached extremism over the last decade partially because of the expansion of social platforms whether white supremacist rally in charlottesville that turned violent or ethnic cleansing in burma or the refugee crisis in the world are you aware of any domestic organization or criminal networks that uses facebook user data and if they have had you go abo

first, we're getting to the bottom of exactly what cambridge analytica did. and telling everyone affected. what we know now is that cambridge analytica improperly accessed some information about millions of facebook members by buying it from an app developer. that information -- this was information that people generally share publicly on their facebook pages like names, and profile picture and the pages they follow. when we first contacted cambridge analytica, they told us that they had deleted the data. about a month ago, we heard new reports that suggested that wasn't true. and now we're working with governments in the u.s., the u.k. and around the world to do a full audit and to get rid of any data they may have. and second, to make sure no app developers are misusing data, we're investigating every single app with a large amount of information in the past. and if we find that someone improperly used data, we're going to ban them from facebook and tell everyone affected. third, to prevent this from ever happening again going forward, we're making sure tha

facebook ban cambridge analytica in 2015? why did you wait? >> senator, that's a great question. cambridge analytica wasn't using our services in 2015, as we can tell. so this is clearly one of the questions that i asked our team as soon as we learned about this, why did we wait until we found out the reports last month to ban them? it's because as of the time that we learned about their activity in 2015, they weren't advertiser, they weren't running pages, so we actually had nothing to ban. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator feinstein. now senator hatch. >> well, in my opinion this is the most intense public scrutiny i've seen for tech related hearing since the microsoft hearing that i chaired back in the late 1990s. the recent stories about cambridge analytica and data mining on social media has raised serious concerns about consumer privacy. naturally you know that 2e same time these story ss touch on the internet economy. and the way the websites that drive our internet economy make money. some h

does facebook plan to sue alexander cogon cambridge university cambridge analytic perhaps for unauthorized access to computer networks exceeding access to computer networks to a breach of contract and while warning a why not congressman is something that we're looking into we already took action by banning him from the platform and we're going to be doing a full audit to make sure that he gets rid of all the data that he that he has as well to your point about cambridge university what we found now is that there is a whole program associated with cambridge university or a number of researchers not just alexander kogan although to our current knowledge she's the only one who sold the data to cambridge and a lot of there were a number of other researchers who were building similar apps so we do need to understand whether there is something bad going on at cambridge university overall that will require a stronger action from us now you mentioned before in your remarks hate speech we've seen the scale and reach of extremism. in the last decade partially because of the expansion of social platf

here on cambridge and similar firms. but as you have said, this is not likely to be an isolated incident, a fact demonstrated by facebook's suspension of another firm just this past weekend. you said when you found third party apps that were using data, you said you would ban them. but it's unlikely to be enough for the 2 billion facebook users. the idea that for every person who decided to try an app, information about nearly 300 other people was scraped from your services to put it mildly, disturbing. and the fact that those 87 million people may have technically consented to making their data available doesn't make most people feel any better. the recent revelation that malicious actors were able to utilize facebook's default privacy settings to match email addresses and phone numbers on the so-called dark web to public facebook profiles affecting all facebook users only adds fuel to the fire. what binds these two incidents is they don't appear to be caused by the type of negligence that allows typical data breaches t

>> yeah. >> you gave that to cambridge analytica? >> what did you think they were going to use it for? >> i knew it was going to be for elections i had an understanding that it was going to be for the republican side. >> as political consult anlts, cambridge analytica is hired by campaigns to analyze voters and ta target them with ad. in the 2016 presidential election, cambridge analytica worked first for ted cruz campaign then later for donald trump, though his campaign says they didn't use the cogan data. the republican ben factors robert and rebecca mercer were cambridge analytica's backers. steve bannon on the board. >> did you ever meet or hear about steve bannon at cambridge analytica? the mercers? jared kushner? >> no, those names would not have rung a bell to be honest. >> tell me what you did? >> create an app people sign up to do a study. sign up to do the study. give them a survey. in the survey. just a facein log in button. click the button. authorize us. >> to do what? >> collect data. the location. gender, birth date. p

kenyan democracy. >>> have you heard of cambridge analytica? have. [ laughter ] >> those are the guys who manipulated, in a way manipulated the elections. >> reporter: you think they gave him an unfair advantage? >> i don't know. but if it is, then it's unfortunate. >> it pulls into question the whole electoral infrastructure in relation to the elections which were held last year, must be fully audited. i think we'll see the footprints of cambridge analytica. >> reporter: images of kenya's president appear on cambridge analytica's website as well as on that of parent company scl where these images have since been removed. >> let's not absolve kenyan politicians of their role in this because cambridge analytica didn't pay themselves. a foreign company came. >> reporter: this video appeared on social media. it made astounding claims about the opposition leader. >> whenever you try to google kenya, the first greeting was all that trash about me. >> reporter: and do you think is contributed to ethnic tensions in this country? >> certainly, and i th

facebook ban cambridge in 2015? why did you wait? ms. feinstein: that's a great question. cambridge analytica wasn't using our services in 2015 as far as we can tell. so this is clearly one of the questions that i asked our team as soon as i learned about this. why did we wait until we found out about the reports last month, to ban them? it's because as of the time that we learned about their activity in 2015, they weren't an advertiser, they weren't running pages. so we had nothing to ban. ms. feinstein: thank you. mr. grassley: now senator hatch. mr. hatch: well, in my opinion this is the most intense public scrutiny i've seen for a tech-related hearing since the microsoft hearing that i chared back in the late 1990's -- chaired back in the late 1990's. the recent stories about cambridge analytica and data mining on social media have raised serious concerns about consumer privacy. and naturally i know you understand that. at the same time these stories touch on the very foundation of the internet economy and the w

we learned in two thousand and fifteen that cambridge analytic had bought data from an app developer on facebook that people had shared it with we did take action we took down the app and we demanded that both the app developer and cambridge general let it go delete and stop using any data that they had but you didn't notify them and. do you think did you have an ethical obligation to notify eighty seven million facebook users. senator when we heard back from cambridge and a lot of code that they had told us that they weren't using the data to delete it we considered it a closed case and retrospect that was clearly a mistake we should have taken their word for it and we've updated our policies and how we're going to operate the company to make sure that we don't make that mistake again this is not what is facebook doing to prevent whoring actors from interfering in us elections thank you senator this is one of my top parties and twenty eighteen i was to get this right i one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the russian information opera

facebook ban cambridge analytica in 2015? why did you wait? >> senator, that's a great question. cambridge analytica wasn't using our services in 2015, as we can tell. so this is clearly one of the questions that i asked our team as soon as we learned about this, why did we wait until we found out the reports last month to ban them? it's because as of the time that we learned about their activity in 2015, they weren't advertiser, they weren't running pages, so we actually had nothing to ban. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator feinstein. now senator hatch. >> well, in my opinion this is the most intense public scrutiny i've seen for tech related hearing since the microsoft hearing that i chaired back in the late 1990s. the recent stories about cambridge analytica and data mining on social media has raised serious concerns about consumer privacy. naturally you know that 2e same time these story ss touch on the internet economy. and the way the websites that drive our internet economy make money. some h

does facebook, therefore, plan to sue alexander colgan, cambridge university, cambridge analytica perhaps for unauthorized access to computer networks, exceeding access to computer networks or breach of contract and why or why not? >> congressman, it's something that we're looking into. we already took action by banning him from the platform and we're going to be doing a full audit to make sure that he gets rid of all of the data that he has as well. to your point about cambridge university, what we've found is that there's a whole program associated with cambridge university where a number of researchers, not just alexander colgan, he's the only one that sold it. there are other researchers building similar apps. we need to understand whether there is something bad going on at cambridge university overall that will require stronger action from us. >> you mentioned before hate speech. we've seen the scale in the last decade partially because of the expansion of social platforms, whether it's a white supremacist rally in charlottesville that turned violent or ethnic cleansing in burma that

obviously it's connected to cambridge analytics. is the issue there was privacy compromised by individuals or is it that this was used by cambridge analytics and others to elect donald trump president, which is two separate issues. >> dana: shelby holiday, there's another issue and that is the sheer size of facebook and what kind of company facebook is. it was the startup darling of the world. but now there's questions because of its power as a news publisher, really, is it a media company? listen to what sheryl sandberg had to say about that. >> we're working hard on this. people want accurate information on facebook and we want them to have accurate information. so what we're doing is working with third party fact checkers, everyone from the ap to weekly standard. we have people in all 50 states now ahead of the election. our goal is to be a platform for all ideas. we are running a service that 2 billion people use. we work in a bipartisan way. >> dana: the sheer size and scope of this company leads you to believe the members of c

facebook ban cambridge in 2015? why did you wait? >> senator, that's a great question. cambridge analytica wasn't using our services in 2015 as far as we can tell. this is clearly one of the question, i asked our team as soon as we learned about this is why did we wait until we found out about the reports last month to ban them? it's because as of the time that we learned about their activity in 2015, they weren't an advertiser, they weren't running pages so we actually had nothing to ban. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> now senator hatch. >> this is the most intense public scrutiny i've seen for a tech-related hearing since the microsoft hearing that i chaired back in the late 1990s. the recent stories about cambridge analytica and data mining on social media have raised serious concerns about consumer privacy, and naturally i know you understand that. at the same time these stories touch on the very foundation of the internet economy and the way the web sites that drive our internet economy make money. s

anyone other than cambridge analytica? >> he sold it to a couple other firms. >> can you identify the? unoya.re is one called there may be a couple others. know or haveo you you tried to find out how cambridge analytica used the data when they had it before you believe they deleted it? heard that they do not delete it about a month ago, we have kicked off an internal investigation to see if they used that data in any of their ads. that investigation is still underway. resultsome back to the once we have that. >> i want to switch to my home state of wisconsin. reports, to press wisconsin was a major target of ads bought on facebook and the 2016 election. are touching on a number of polarizing issues. they were designed to interfere with the election. we also learned that russian actors using another platform, targetedsimilarly wisconsin with divisive content. dissentg division and including in the wake of a police involved shooting in milwaukee. in thesome encouragement steps you have outlined today to provide greater trans

former cambridge analytica employee has said that the data that cambridge analytica could be stored in russia. do you agree that's a possibility? >> are you asking if cambridge analytica's data could be stored in russia? >> that's what he said on the sunday show. >> i don't have any specific knowledge that would suggest that. one of the steps we need to take now is do a full audit of all of cambridge analytica systems and make sure they remove all the data. if they don't, we're going to take legal action against them to do so. that audit, we have temporarily ceded that while the u.k. government does their investigation. we're committed to get to the bottom of this so we can have more answers to this. >> you said you would support some privacy rules so everyone's playing by the same rules here. you also said here that you should have notified customers earlier. would you support a rule that would require you to notify your users of a breach within 72 hours? >> senator, that makes sense to me and i think we should have our team follow up with yours to discuss the details around that more

in response, cambridge university said, look, we have made them aware.a letter on the 21st of march desiring them to provide evidence. they also said we have been publishing findings of our data and our research since 2013. you should know about this. emily: last question, we know the facebook cto will be testifying in the u.k. in a few weeks. we have 30 seconds left. how will it be different from what we saw here? alex: the problem is there are a lot of different lawmakers asking questions and they were constrained by time. they had four minutes, five minutes each. that is very little. it meant it was hard to post follow-up questions. in the u.k. that will not be the case. there are fewer people in the select committee bit more time. , a that gives them a far greater opportunity to take into the nitty-gritty and hopefully get more substantial answers, which zuckerberg not delivered today. emily: rather than saying ok, you can come back to me. caroline hyde, alex webb, thank you both. that does it for this edition of "bloomberg technology" in new york. a

was potentially misused by cambridge analytica.make of this leadership shuffle over there? give us some more context. caroline: i think we have got to remember that cambridge analytica still feels that it has done nothing wrong. we keep on hearing from the company throughout the testimony of mark zuckerberg. they have been claiming once again that we didn't break any laws. they have taken to twitter saying this. overall they are saying they did not use this 87 million user data treasure trove in the 2016 presidential election. they did not use it in the e.u. referendum. this is why i think we are seeing still so much reshuffling at the top of cambridge analytica. hadnow that the person who been at the helm has been caught on camera by the channel four news had secret video footage they took of him bragging about some of the more questionable tactics he uses in campaigns at cambridge analytica. he has now fully resigned. as we now know the chief data officer who was acting as ceo has gone back to his usual role. i think it just mean

cambridge analytica has denied any wrongdoing. >> why didn't facebook ban cambridge in 2015? did you wait? >> senator, this is clearly one of the questions that i asked our team as soon as i learned about this, why did we wait until we found out about the reports last month to ban them? >> reporter: but for those whose data has already been compromised, the breach may have far-reaching consequences. right before zuckerberg appeared on capitol hill, facebook and cambridge analytica were hit with a class action lawsuit accusing the company of misusing personal information. >> it's unlikely people will stop using facebook. the social network has become a utility. it not only owns facebook, it owns instagram, what's up, and a number of other companies. >> reporter: the social media site says it's doubling down on security, increasing the number of employees working on security from 10,000 to 20,000. zuckerberg's calm, careful, and contrite demeanor played well. facebook stock increased 4.5%. >> i think mark zuckerberg is comfortable being mark zuckerberg. i believe facebook is th

i think there is more confusion at the helm of cambridge analytica.f confusion, zuckerberg said that they are looking more deeply at cambridge university and whether there is something bad going on more broadly. what did he mean by that? caroline: shock, horror, at the very heart throwing them under the bus, it would seem. it would seem very vanguard of the academic institution at the heart of the u.k. he is saying whether they are going to investigate researchers at cambridge university. remember, aleksandr kogan was at the university when he was inventing the apps and getting information from users. notably, there was really firm rhetoric coming from cambridge university itself in response to this. i said that the reason they said they were really surprised that the reason mark zuckerberg has not overall known what was going on at the university of cambridge. he himself is saying that you need to understand whether something bad was going on at the rate university and whether it required stronger action from facebook. in response, cambridge universi

they talked about telling, you know, cambridge analytica to delete their data. but what if they already replicated it? what if they have it stored somewhere. but that may be a fact. but it never came up, i would like to know, you know, that probably is a possibility. and there is probably nothing we can do with it, if that's a fact, but no one asked about this fact. so i really appreciated being able to watch them, the hearings for the two days. i don't often have this block of time. and i thank you for letting people call in. because i've learned a lot from the hearings and from what the callers have said before me. so thank you very much. >> well, patricia north carolina and a newspaper of other callers have expressed their disappointment in the level of questioning, i guess you would say, from both yesterday from senators and today from members of the house energy and commerce committee. similar reflection here on facebook. leah posted this. maybe these congress people really should have done some reslesh befor research before this hearing. like read up faceb

lawmakers did he clear the misunderstandings about the cambridge analytical scandal . well first i thought he did a pretty good job keeping his cool but i don't think he cleared a lot of the misunderstandings one of the things that senators kept asking over and over again is about selling data and he had to say several times that facebook doesn't sell data to advertisers instead of salespeople to fill the users based on certain demographics or interests he also did not i think adequately addressed exactly why with such a delay between the time that facebook found out about this breach with cambridge analytic and when the public found out about it he did say that they thought they had dealt with it but even then they should have disclosed it so i wasn't happy with that aspect of it and i think the senator some of them are tech savvy but many of them kind of indicated that they really don't understand how facebook works right it's interesting you say that jennifer most of the senators who as october questions didn't seem to have a clue on how facebook worked or what the

he was working at cambridge university at the time. we did publish findings of our data and research since 2013. emily: we know that a facebook executive will be testifying in the u.k. in a few weeks. we have 30 seconds left. how will it be different from what we have seen here in the u.s.? alex: i think there were a lot of lawmakers asking questions and they were constrained by time. they had four minutes today, five minutes yesterday. that is very little. it was very hard to pose follow-up questions. in the u.k. that is not going to be the case. there are fewer people in the select committees, and some more time. that gives them a far greater opportunity to date into the nitty-gritty and hopefully get more substantial answers, which mark zuckerberg was not able to deliver today. emily: that was bloomberg's alex webb and caroline hyde. that does it for this edition of the "best of bloomberg technology." we will bring you the latest of tech during the week. tune in every day, 5:00 p.m. in new york, 2:00 p.m. in san francisco. remember

i think we need to fully examine what cambridge analytica did. they either broke a code of conduct or if they broke any other rules or agreements with you, i hope they suffer the consequences. i think that timeline needs to be updated. i read a series of art cals published in the m.i.t. technology review in 2012. it talks about how proud the obama campaign was of exploiting data on facebook. someone asked you if it made you mad what cambridge analytica did and you answered yes. but you should be equally mad when a former campaigning manager of obama tweeted facebook was surprised. we were able to suck out the holt social grasp. and they didn't stop us when they realized that's what we were doing. >> i'm sure we can get the tweet back, and the history grabber machine. when you do your research it's important to get your whole view. i worked in date analytics for my entire career. anybody who claims cambridge analytica was the first to exploit date pa hasn't worked in analytics. i would appreciate it if you start with the first high-profile nationa

how many cambridge analytica are still out there. shutting down data to third parties isn't enough in my opinion. facebook and many other companies are doing the same thing, using people's personal information to do highly targeted product and political advertising. and facebook is just the latest in a never ending string of companies that vacuum up our data but fail to keep it safe and this incident demonstrates yet again that our laws are not working. making matters worse, republicans here in congress continue to block or even repeal the few privacy protections we have in this era of non-stop data breaches last year republicans eliminated existing privacy and data security protections at the fcc. their justification that those protections were not needed because the federal trade commission has everything under control. this latest disaster shows just how wrong the republicans are. the ftc used every tool the republicans have been willing to give it and those tools weren't enough and that's why facebook acted like so many other com

my did not think cambridge analytica.uld have a theory bandied them then. we made a mistake in not doing so, but i wanted to make sure i corrected that because i made a mistake, got that wrong earlier. thank you, chairman. welcome back. on the subject of bands, iwant welcome back. on the subject of bands, i want to explore a little bit what these mean. facebook has done disreputable damage with its association with alexander cook and cambridge analytica, which is one of the reasons you're having this wonderful afternoon with us. he testified that the app has been banned. as he also been banned? yes, my understanding is he has. so if you were my understanding is he has. so if you were to open up another account undera name and you were to open up another account under a name and you were able to find a document that would be taken, closed down? senator, i believe we are preventing him from doing any more apps. does he have a facebook account is still? i believe the a nswer to account is still? i believe the answer to that

then cambridge analytica happened. was like, oh, shoot, i need to step back and think about what is the concept behind apis. is it more responsible use of apis? and how do these feed into the digital ecosystem. so one of the warnings i want to put out there and something i think we should all be looking for and i think the ftc is well tooled to do this because they have the office of technology, the competition bureau, is to make sure that facebook as it starts to review its apis, review its api policies, and again i want to be careful to say i think there are a lot of things they should do to prerott privacy, to protect security, to make sure people willy nilly can't get access to all our consumer data, but at the same time make sure there isn't an overcorrection, but data that helps developers come up with exciting new programs and apps that people want to use on facebook, that could ultimately compete with facebook. and facebook could have the incentive and the ability using its apis to say, you know, let's not let

based cambridge analytical firm it's accused of improperly accessing the information of eighty seven million users through a facebook john holl explains. well two pretty interesting bits of testimony heard from different sources of course in the facebook cambridge analytical data breach scandal first of all speaking to a parliamentary committee dr alexander kogan he's the man who produced the app that was used to harvest the data of some eighty seven million facebook users and then illegibly pass it on to cambridge analytical for use in influencing the donald trump campaign and following that swiftly it was a press conference given by cambridge analytical defending or dealing with what it described as ill informed and inaccurate speculation about a company that well alexander kogan insists as he has done before that he did nothing wrong back in two thousand and fourteen both sides he said knew precisely what was going on what he was doing no one raised any objections then he says he's being made a scapegoat by facebook that describes him as a liar and a fraud his product as a scam an

facebook ban cambridge in 2015? why'd you wait another -- >> senator, that's a great question. cambridge analytica wasn't using our services in 2015 as far as we can tell. so this is clearly one of the questions that i asked our team as soon as i learned about this, why did we wait until we found out about the reports last month to ban them? it's because as of the time that we learned about their activity in 2015, they weren't an advertiser, they weren't running pages, so we actually had nothing to ban. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator feinstein. now senator hatch. >> well, in my opinion, this is the most, this is the most intense public scrutiny i've seen for a tech-related hearing since the microsoft hearing that i chaired back in the late 1990s. the recent stories about cambridge analytica and data mining on social media have raised serious concerns about consumer privacy. and naturally, i know you understand that. at the same time, these stories touch on the very foundation of the int

didn't facebook abandon cambridge in 2015? analytical wasn't using our sis —— cambridge wasn't using our information into thousand 15. as of the time that we learned about their activity in 2015, they went to an advertiser or running pages. we had nothing to ban. senator hatch. in my opinion, this is the most intense public scrutiny i have seen for a tech related hearing since the microsoft hearing that i shed at backin microsoft hearing that i shed at back in the late 1990s. the recent stories about cambridge analytica and data mining on social media raises serious concerns about consumer raises serious concerns about consumer privacy. naturally, i know you understand that. at the same time, distressed touch on the very foundation of the internet economy. —— visa stories touch. some have professed themselves shocked, shocked, that companies like facebook and google share their user data with advertisers. did any of these individuals stopped to ask himself why facebook and google don't charge for access? nothing in life is fre

facebook ban cambridge in 2015? why did you wait? >> senator, that's a great question. cambridge analytica wasn't using our services in 2015 as far as we can tell. one of the questions i asked our team as soon as i learned about this. why did we wait until we found out about the reports last month to ban them? it's as of the time we learned about their activity in 2015. they weren't an advertiser and weren't running pages. we actually had nothing to ban. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator feinstein. now senator hatch. >> this the most intense public scrutiny i have seen sings the microsoft hearing that i chaired back in the late 1990s. the recent stories about cambridge analytica and data mining on social media have raised serious concerns about consumer privacy. and naturally i know you understand that. at the same time, these stories touch on the very foundation of the internet economy and the way the websites that drive our internet economy make money. some have professed themselves shoc

alexander -- top of cambridge analytica.him bragging about some of the more questionable tactics he used in campaigns at cambridge analytica . he has now fully resigned. the chief did officer who was acting as ceo has gone back to his usual role. i think it just means there is yet more confusion at the helm. emily: speaking of confusion, zuckerberg said something interesting today, that they are looking more dave -- more deeply at cambridge university and if there something bad going on more broadly. what does he mean by that? caroline: horror at the very heart, throwing them under the bus, it would seem. the very vanguard of academic institutions at the heart of the u.k. he is questioning whether they are going to investigate researchers at cambridge university. notably, there was firm rhetoric coming from cambridge university in response. they said they were rather surprised that mark zuckerberg has not overall known about what was going on at the university of cambridge. he himself is saying they need to understand whethe

the question is the cambridge analytica having impact.kerberg has said we haven't seen a material impact. remember that you guys talked to sheryl sandberg last week and she said that some advertisers are hitting deposit button on spending. was it enough for there to be an impact on sales? everything that cheryl and mark and in one on the call tomorrow says is one be scrutinized if there is any meaningful pullback. there's a couple of other things that happen at the beginning of the year and the make changes to the newsfeed. deborah to make the results more relevant, and that meant fewer advertisements. that is another thing people are going to look at. how much of an impact are those changes good having. member for the first time ever we have a decline in north american users and that continue into the first quarter? is it a function of can which allen -- cambridge analytica? all of these things are in focus tomorrow? emily: will that hang on twitter? or did twitter benefit from it? we hear their video strategy is paying off and all the i

cambridge analytica actually has a parent company. we have banned the parent company and recently also banned a firm called a iq which i think is also associated with them. we find other firms associated with them we will block them from the platform as well. >> or individual principles of the firm also banned two -- principals. >> my understand is we are blocking them on the platform but i do not believe we are blocking peoples personal accounts. >> okay. can any customer amend your terms of service? or the terms of service, is it a take it or leave it service for the average customer? >> the terms of service are what they are. but it is really defined by people.ar because you get to choose what information you share whole services about what friends you connect to, -- >> mike question is related to senator graham holding up -- later turn out to be of consequence and all he wanted to establish with you is that a document senator graham held up, that is not a negotiable thing with individual customers. that is a take it or leave it pr

to reiterate the news, the duchess of cambridge gave birth to a son at 11. 01 of cambridge gave birthon bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. have a good afternoon. let's go straight back to st mary's hospital in paddington where in the last half hour we've had news of a new baby boy for the duke and duchess of cambridge. let's speak to our royal correspondent sarah campbell. tremendous excitement outside the hospital. talk us through the morning's events. the media was alerted at 8:23am this morning to the news that the duchess had been admitted to hospital in the early stages of labour. she went in with prince william. we knew the birth was imminent but we didn't know the exact due date. the barriers went up outside the hospital on the 9th of april so that was a signal that something will could be expected at any time. the media alert went out just before half past eight this morning and it's been a case of waiting for news and waiting to find out and then the official tweet went out and then the official tweet went out at two minutes past one saying the duchess of

hearing on cambridge and similar firms.ut as you've said, this is not likely to be an isolated incident a fact demonstrated by facebook's suspension of another firm just this weekend you've promised that when facebook discovers other apps that had access to large amounts of user data, you will ban them and tell those affected and that's appropriate but it's unlikely to be enough for the 2 billion facebook users. one reason that so many people are worried about this incident is what it says about how facebook works the idea that for every person who decided to try an app, information about nearly 300 other people was scraped from your services, to put it mildly, disturbing and the fact that those 87 million people may have technically consented to making their data available doesn't make most people feel any better the recent revelation that malicious actors were able to utilize facebook's default privacy settings to match e-mail addresses and phone numbers found on the so-called dark web to public facebook profiles potentia

and the duke and duchess of cambridge introduce the world to their new baby boy.fth in line to the throne. hello. 10 people have been killed by a van that was driven at high speed onto the pavement for several blocks in the canadian city of toronto. another 15 people are injured. the driver fled the scene, but was arrested soon afterwards. canadian media are naming him as 25—year—old, alek minassian. authorities are currently treating it as a deliberate act, but they believe there are no national security implications. our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. a spring day in the northern suburbs of toronto where pedestrians enjoying the afternoon sunshine were suddenly confronted by a vehicle careering down the pavement. it mounted the curb and was then driven at high speed, 70—80mph according to eyewitnesses. it continued on for over half a mile, hitting pedestrian after pedestrian. it looks like this white rental van was used as a weapon. all i seen is this guy, he was going 70, 80 clicks, he's just hitting people one by one, going down. oh, man, it