cambridge and a little 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 the 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 thank you bart for inviting me back well 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 globe a char and republican john kennedy the what it's a called a social media privacy protection and consumer rights act of two thousand what would it do miles well the first thing is it's really rema

speaking of billionaires with nothing better to do than ruin everyone's life mark zuckerberg. the facebook c.e.osaid he was planning to combine facebook and the grams with whatsapp. people who use whatsapp don't have to feel out anymore. the last one anything wants is to mix the three worlds. instagram is when you slide into the d.m.s. facebook is ignoring news from your family. what's app is when you join i.s.i.s.. they need to be totally separate. otherwise, they get mixed up. i don't want to send a dickpic to my aunt and definitely document want to send one to i.s.i.s. again. ( laughter ) a major event just announced in afghanistan. >> the united states and taliban have agreed in principal to a peace framework. >> the united states is considering full withdrawal of troops in afghanistan in return for a cease fire and commitment by the taliban to keep afghanistan territory from being used as a staging ground for terrorist groups like al quaida. >> this would be the biggest step toward ending the nearly two-decade long war in afghanistan to date. >> trevor: i had forgotten there was a war in af

really have no clue as to how facebook does what it does if i was to give you the keys to the castle make you c.e.o. of facebook what would you change in what mark zuckerberg is doing. i think they're making some progress and some credit needs to be given to them for actually seeking to apply transparency and seeking to learn from the lessons and investing enormously in a lot of the eye as they seek to improve it but we simply aren't there yet and they need to do a lot more and the controls that they've had in place in order to protect people's privacy and to act responsibly simply haven't existed. response to the to the early comments about the men appearing in front of inquiries there are some countries take the u.k. for example where facebook and zuckerberg in particular have refused to even appear in front of numerous invitations to stand in front of a parliamentary committee so a long way needs to go in terms of their willingness to stand up and appear before committees across the globe in all the markets that matter and also going to improve the further and to take the steps as they're doing now around transparency if you disagree with any of that ri

congress interviewed mark zuckerberg of facebook and he also interviewed the c.e.o. of google the questions they asked showed how knowledgeable they are and how far along technology is car versus you know the traditional tax structure and the regulation so they're they're in over their head so when a country like france good. it's out in front and does something like this they can set a precedent that other people can emulate and learn from their experiences their mistakes etc etc and that's that for gas as well france will be raising money that it desperately needs i mean it may not have a huge impact at the tech end but it will certainly have a big impact for the french government in its budget. indeed and i think there's nothing wrong with that but i do want to address a previous point because when we talk about whether or not people should be using the current social media platforms that exist what i'm what i'm saying is not stop using facebook stop using google but what i'm saying is there's a different way of building technology so there's a false dichotomy her

congress interviewed mark zuckerberg of facebook and he also interviewed the c.e.o. of google the questions they asked showed how are knowledgeable they are and how far along technology is car versus you know the traditional tax structure and the regulation so they're they're in over their head so when a country like france good. it's out in front and does something like this they can set a precedent that other people can emulate and learn from their experiences their mistakes etc etc and let's not forget as well france will be raising money that it desperately needs i mean it may not have a huge impact the tech ends but it will certainly have a big impact for the french government and its budget. indeed and i think there's nothing wrong with that but i do want to address a previous point because when we talk about whether or not people should be using the current social media platforms that exist what i'm what i'm saying is not stop using facebook stop using google but what i'm saying is there's a different way of building technology so there's a false dichotomy her

congress interviewed mark zuckerberg of facebook and he also interviewed the c.e.o. of google the questions they asked showed how knowledgeable they are and how far along technology is car versus you know the traditional tax structure and the regulation so they're they're in over their head so when a country like france good. south in front does something like this they can set a precedent that other people can emulate and learn from their experiences their mistakes etc etc and that's that for gas as well france will be raising money that it desperately needs i mean it may not have a huge impact at the tech end but it will certainly have a big impact for the french government in its budget. indeed and i think there's nothing wrong with that but i do want to address a previous point because when we talk about whether or not people should be using the current social media platforms that exist what i'm what i'm saying is not stop using facebook stop using google but what i'm saying is there's a different way of building technology so there's a false dichotomy here where