continues in the wake of the exploitation of data on millions of facebook users, we caught up with dick costolond asked him to weigh in on the controversy. dick: one of the concerns or questions i have is the impact it will have on the way people think about api's and access to data in the future. obviously, facebook has built out this platform approach that enabled third parties to act as -- to interact with it in gauge -- interact with and engage with people on facebook, and turned that off from years ago. we are seeing the consequences of some of that. i think it will have an impact on the way technology and company is forward think about how the data will be used, how they can audit, how it is disposed of. emily: how does facebook use data differently than twitter? as i understand it, twitter is more protective of user data, though twitter has its own issues which we can talk about. do you think facebook has been too permissive, too careless about user data? dick: not to be an apologist for what has been going on, but this platform was public. people knew what those api's were capable of, a