it seems that they were charged with violating the federal trade commission act as well as the federal trade commission's telemarketing sales through roll and there was these two poseidon key publishing have been reached a settlement with the government and they didn't have to give back but their whole side of it was they didn't have to give back the eleven measured million because they had no ability to pay it which means they just spent it. so they took eleven million dollars under these very strange false precess protests and of course a lot of these aren't just you know they're not i just you know when you're tired of the golden parachute right i mean and so i mean twenty million dollars should be true you know groups fighting for this for me too and all of it is is a lot of money but for a guy like les moonves who has made probably would close to a billion and those were in his whole career the just be way more money than twenty million dollars i mean the hundred twenty million his owed by his contract will be put in escrow pending the end results of the investigation even if he n

it seems that they were charged with violating the federal trade commission acts as well as the federal trade commission's telemarketing sales through role and there was these two poseidon key publishing had been reached a settlement with the government and they didn't have to give back but their whole side of it was they didn't have to give back the eleven measured million because they had no ability to pay it which means they just spent it so. we took a live in million dollars under these very strange recess protests it is and of course a lot of these aren't just you know they're not are just you know in your run of the mill private school these are charter schools these are these for profit so for profit places that are definitely looking because i'll tell you you have no you don't need another web site to find it's pretty easy to find a recruiter to get it i don't think nobody's calling anybody back from the marines so they need another you know i mean another web site in case they can't get through on the actual i want to. get a statement. to declare quote some key how to find repl

the federal trade commission prepared an antitrust case against them but the obama justice departmentn't take it. google now controls nearlyma 90% of the search engine market, 65% of the browser market, 85% of the oval mobile operating syst. they control the online ad marketon which means they also control the companies that rely on online advertising, that is every single digital news company in the united states. google has ann army of lobbyists in washington it bankrolls politicians and contributes to virtually every major think tank in washington regardless of ideologies including hilariously a d think tank dedicated to fighting monopolies. at least one of those think tanks has fired a staffer for being critical of google. thee question is -- and it may e rhetorical --e is google too powerful to regulate? scott leland is author of "search and destroy: why you can't trust google" and he joins us now. all of the t information comes o us from this tiny little portal, google says trust us were not putting our thumb on the scale, can we? >>>> no we can't because no one knows what goes

we can talk about what facebook should've done but we should start talk about what the federal trade commissiondo. brad: i'm tempted to ask, can facebook catch a break in 2018? >> well, on the one hand, a day of chaos in washington is a good day to announce a massive security vulnerability, but, no, it does seem like facebook keeps stepping in it. it's computing to this loss of faith we have seen it facebook this year. these repeated scandals. and it does seem like facebook did the right thing this time with the security vulnerability that disclosed it relatively quickly. it is investigating and notified law enforcement and with drew appropriate steps but any time we had facebook and security vulnerability in the same headline in 2018, it brings up all those concerns about russiage analytica, propaganda around the election and data misuse at facebook. it just underscores that this not of trust in facebook is something that is going to be re-won anytime soon. brad: so, as facebook is explaining this data breach, the ceo of google is in d.c. meeting with lawmakers. it is an omnibus meeting p you

my name is andrew smith and i'm the director of the bureau of consumer protection at the federal trade commission were dedicated to pursuing law enforcement actions to stop unlawful practices including fraud against consumers but this is andrew smith less than a year ago representing equifax a company investigated by the f.t.c. for a massive data breach my name is andrew smith and i'm a partner in the law firm of covington and burling i'm appearing today on behalf of the consumer data industry association c.d.i. its members include the three national credit bureaus equifax experian and trans union we have the mr smith a twenty eight team heading the watchdog that is still probing the corporation that he defended in twenty seventeen a clear example of the revolving door between the federal government and its trade secrets cable company r.t. new york. a passenger jet has overshot the runway and caught fire in southern russia and. early hours of saturday leaving eighteen people injured including three children the boeing plane operated by you tear airlines was unable to land for more than half an ho

my name is andrew smith and i'm the director of the bureau of consumer protection at the federal trade commission were dedicated to pursuing law enforcement actions to stop unlawful practices including fraud against consumers but this is andrew smith less than a year ago representing equifax a company investigated by the f.t.c. for a massive data breach my name is andrew smith and i'm a partner in the law firm of covington and burling i'm appearing today on behalf of the consumer data industry association c.d.i. its members include the three national credit bureaus equifax.

your act together or we have to intervene last but not least, an important note that the federal trade commissionook at google's search algorithms again if you recall, the ftc during the obama administration had a similar evaluation and it was a close call as to whether or not the search algorithms inherently had competitive bias i would pay attention to how the ftc will revisit that issue as an existing regulation that gets exercised based on new facts or new commissioners. >> aneesh, i can't help but feel there's no regulation looming that's going to change the competitive dynamic for these companies. everybody is talking about we need some regulation, expect it to be coming sheryl sandberg saying it is not a whether we are regulated >> let me give you an example. on the issue of fake accounts, imagine if the industry reached consensus that you had to verify the individual before you set up a social media account, akin to banking regulations on know your customer the industry could reach a consensus to do something like that and could establish policies that say well, if you have a verified acc

my name is andrew smith and i'm the director of the bureau of consumer protection at the federal trade commission were dedicated to pursuing law enforcement actions to stop unlawful practices including fraud against consumers but this is andrew smith less than a year ago representing equifax a company investigated by the f.t.c. for a massive data breach my name is andrew smith and i'm a partner in the law firm of covington and burling i'm appearing today on behalf of the consumer data industry association c.d.i. its members include the three national credit bureaus equifax experian and trans union we have the mr smith a twenty eight team heading the watchdog that is still probing the corporation that he defended in twenty seventeen a clear example of the revolving door between the federal government and its trade secrets cable company r.t. me york. more news coming your way after this short break.

the federal trade commission prepared an antitrust case against the tech giant a few years ago. the obama justice department didn't take it. google now controls roughly 90% of the search engine market. 65% of the internet browser market. it controls 85% of the mobile operating systems on the phones in our pockets right now google controls downline ad market online advertising that is every single digital news company in the united states. google has an army of lobbyists in washington bank rolls politicians contributing to every major think tank in washington regardless of ideology including hilariously a think tank dedicated to fighting monday nope police. one of those think tanks has fired staff for being critical of google. question is it may be rhetorical is google too powerful to regulate. the author of search and destroy why you can't trust google inc. he joins us now. scott, i have quickly on the search question that seems like one of the most basic questions all information comes from tiny portal. google says trust us, we are not putting our thumb on the scale. can we? >>

recently the federal trade commission announced the seizure of nine websites designed to look like military recruitment pages according to p.c. mag the websites which appeared to be affiliated with the us military but were in fact not ask prospective military applicants to provide personal data quoting their full name email addresses phone numbers and education history in exchange for information about joining the armed forces and despite promises not to share any of the applicants personal information sun keep publishing and fan mail dot com the two companies behind the scam wouldn't back turn around and sell the data gizmodo reports that the companies would contact the potential recruits and encourage them to enroll in specific for profit schools under the false impression that the u.s. military endorsed the organizations so if the poor kid looking to be all he can be sound of beliefs but interested some key would set the hook reel them in and then sell their private info to private schools for anywhere from fifteen to forty dollars a hit netting a total of eleven million dollars since tw

searching for free now at ancestry.com >> kroft: this past month, senator orrin hatch asked the federal trade commissionlations of anti-trust law and anti-competitive business practices, in part because of this story we aired last may. his request comes amid a flurry of high-profile congressional hearings on the enormous, largely-unchecked power accumulated by tech giants like facebook, amazon, and google over the last two decades. of the three, google, which is part of a holding company called alphabet, is the most powerful, intriguing, and omnipresent in our lives. this is how it came to be. most people love google. it's changed our world, insinuated itself in our lives, made itself indispensable. you probably don't even have to type google.com into your computer-- it's often the default setting, a competitive advantage google paid billions of dollars for. no worry. google is worth more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars right now, and you don't get that big by accident. since going public in 2004, google has acquired more than 200 companies, expanding its reach across the internet. it bought y

this is different from the traditional agency that's existed with the federal trade commission, the securities and exchange commission. so i did not read her old article to in any way -- >> let's put it this way, she may have complimented scalia's dissent in the writing or holding. you criticized the independent counsel statute as a constitutional travesty. i'm simply trying to get to the bottom of why you held that view and why you chose to say that in a speech just two years ago? >> well, it was morrison v. olson was a one off case about a one off statute that hasn't existed for 20 years. the statute is gone. i read that many times in speeches i've given. but that statute, it's real important to be clear here, i know you know this, senator, so everyone understands, that statute hasn't existed since 1999. special counsel -- >> but it is still good law, is it not? but the holding by the supreme court in morrison v. olson, even though the statute passed into history, morrison v. olson as a decision of the supreme court is still good law. in fact, your own circuit said so forcefully tonight. >>

>>> big tech has gotten the attention of the federal trade commission. the agency is now holding a series of hearings to examine whether some well-known companies are in fact monopolies. ands as comes a skroutny from washinon grows. the julia boisterousen has more on the story. trade commission wants to look at whether changing technologies demand changing regulation. the ftc holding two days of hearingens onti comon and consumer protection in the 21st century. >> today our most difficult consumer protection issues revolve the usef and abuse of logical kpanlts. >> a series of panels examining whether the tech giantsre month op lies google with dominance of search facebookth 2 billion monthly users andit amundsonen w the trillion dollar market cap and transformation of reta land cape. all companies and peers access to consumer data raising questions about whether data privacy needs to be regulated differently. >> privacy is one aspect. that's something the ftc wants to look at closer. they have always revised t rule fre to time. this might be another mome

we found dozens of complaints filed with the federal trade commission by people claiming their identitieste ride share accounts. here in california the dmv investigates counterfeit dries en -- driver's licenses. >> reporter: the deputy chief tom wilson says his office can look into fake account but must responsibility lies with the companies themselves. >> we put the front end of the work to the company and they are the ones who put the processes in place. >> reporter: not only did he trick women -- >> reporter: lyft has already acknowledged cracks in the driver authentication system. take a look at the case of the drive share rapist. he fraudulently represented himself to gain employment as a driver. the company declined our ask saying only what's being described is extremely concerning. we have a dedicated team that investigates fraudulent behavior which may result with immediate deactivation from the platform. uber pointed to several measures it used to prevent the friday and just because someone creates an account doesn't mean it can be rented successfully. >> oh, man, i'm going to ge

my name is andrew smith and i'm the director of the bureau of consumer protection at the federal trade commission were dedicated to pursuing law enforcement actions to stop unlawful practices including fraud against consumers but this is andrew smith less than a year ago representing equifax a company investigated by the f.t.c. for a massive data breach my name is andrew smith and i'm a partner in the law firm of covington and burling i'm appearing today on behalf of the consumer data industry association which is a trade association of companies we have the mr smith a twenty eight team heading the watchdog that is still probing the corporation that he defended in twenty seventeen a clear example of the revolving door between the federal government and its trade secrets cable pomp and r.t. new york much more to come this hour with me kevin though in the remote with you today including imus in the firing line over working conditions for its american stuff no one said it says he. he's got a plan to balance that all up tell you all about it soon as we come back. you know world's big partisan movie l

my name is andrew smith and i'm the director of the bureau of consumer protection at the federal trade commission were dedicated to pursuing law enforcement actions to stop unlawful practices including fraud against consumers but this is andrew smith less than a year ago representing equifax a company investigated by the f.t.c. for a massive data breach my name is andrew smith and i'm a partner in the law firm of covington and burling i'm appearing today on behalf of the consumer data industry association which is a trade association of companies we have the mr smith a twenty eight team heading the watchdog that is still probing the corporation that he defended in twenty seventeen a clear example of the revolving door between the federal government and its trade secrets cable company r.t. new york could three twenty six or more scrutiny now through this sort of a that's a snapshot of some of the big willed news stories than this always so much more. you can if you'll say to this weekend is kevin owen saying thanks to watching out international. four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets sh

industry has been foursquare for principles that are enshrined in framework developed by the federal trade commission. we have been leading the way in how we can actually provide consumer protection through our network certainly hope that the rest of the internet ecosystem we use our system to stand up and take the same kind of steps that are members and industry has been taken. >> host: the ftc has become the the regulator of the internet now with internet net neutrality principles put away. are they doing, is it too early to tell? >> guest: they are leaning in and stepping out. the leadership out of the gates have really embraced their role for the internet. they have recently decided to hold a series of public hearings across the country looking at competition issues in the internet ecosystem. i think they will be vigilant safeguards. they have the intellectual, legal, technical and engineering capabilities to do this work and i'm sure all of us in the internet are going to be hearing from them and will have a tough new cop on the beat. that's a good thing for consumers. >> host: how tough is it i

my name is andrew smith and i'm the director of the bureau of consumer protection at the federal trade commission were dedicated to pursuing law enforcement actions to stop unlawful practices including fraud against consumers but this is andrew smith less than a year ago representing equifax a company investigated by the f.t.c. for a massive data breach my name is andrew smith and i'm a partner in the law firm of covington and burling i'm appearing today on behalf of the consumer data industry association which is a trade association of companies we have the mr smith a twenty eight team heading the watchdog that is still probing the corporation that he defended in twenty seventeen a clear example of the revolving door between the federal government and its trade secrets tabletop and r.t. new york and that is your news but i will update you again enough when i say that. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics score does less i'm show business i'll see you then. it was you know provision on my back when i would've been. asked but i. think

broadband provider industry have been four principles that are framework n the developed by the federal trade commission. i think we've been leading the way in how we can actually provide consumer protections through our networks, and we fr developed by hope that the rest of the eco-system will use our model and stand up and take the steps that our members and our industry has been taking. has become the de facto regulator of the with internet net neutrality principles put away. how are they doing or is it too early to tell? think they are leaning in and stepping up. the ftc and its new leadership really he gates have embraced their role as the new cop on the beat for the internet. decided to cently hold a series of hearings, public hearings, across the looking at competition issues in the internet eco-system. think they are going to be vigilant safeguards. they have the intellectual, egal, technical, and engineering capabilities to do this work, and i'm sure that, in on the internet, will be hearing from them, and are going to have a tough new cop on and that's a good thing for consumers. >> how disrup

data wanting to utilize it to make more money off of you and that's essentially what the federal trade commission warn people about over the holidays last year they're saying hey it may be interesting you may have valid reasons for wanting to use these online companies or these genetic testing home kits but the bottom line is that's you you're giving them your building blocks to make you there's no ownership of that this is your personal data and one of the country's largest out of brokers axiom basically calls it ethical data use there's this feeling that hey your data really isn't you shouldn't have an expectation of privacy but trust us we're going to use it ethically so it will be interesting to see if the government like the f.t.c. branch or someone else comes into starts to regulate but right now there are no steps necessarily i believe that are pending to do that but it's in it's in everyone's here they're talking about it well wait till they see this in other interviews molly burrows legal journalist with ring of fire network thanks a lot molly. they start. and that's it for this time tha

my name is andrew smith and i'm the director of the bureau of consumer protection at the federal trade commission were dedicated to pursuing law enforcement actions to stop unlawful practices including fraud against consumers but this is andrew smith less than a year ago representing equifax a company investigated by the f.t.c. for a massive data breach my name is andrew smith and i'm a partner in the law firm of covington and burling i'm appearing today on behalf of the consumer data industry association which is a trade association of companies we have the mr smith a twenty eight team heading the watchdog that is still probing the corporation that he defended in twenty seventeen a clear example of the revolving door between the federal government and its trade secrets cable company r.t. new york ok that's how it looks i fall this saturday i'm calling brian moscow back with your next news optimax and stacy assessed the legacy of the late u.s. senator john mccain. and outlets are going to learn how to act on our better than our good luck though the up but not out of the mouth of the money little

the federal trade commission are in the midst of a major inquiry into all the digital platforms.ng. they have roundtables starting this month. that has not been done for 20 years. going, there are things on in the background that are supporting this process, and that will inform what goes on in lake congress. -- in congress. david: all important and good people working hard, but you know that when everybody is in charge, nobody is in charge. right now, i do not have a sense of there is a person that the president can turn to and say, you get this fixed, it is on your shoulders. >> i would say we have separation of powers for a good reason. we have three branches of government, and they all play a role. when you see the department of justice with a role, the federal trade commission, the judiciary, ia, national telecommunications information agency, they are working with the department of commerce and looking at what we can learn from cybersecurity to bring to this issue. senator ron wyden of oregon pointed out the privacy issue is something on the level of national security. so t

if you look at the federal trade commission, clearly tech companies have grown so large so quick and the retail business. they are trying to get into all kinds of different industries because they have the data. data in and of itself is a commodity and with that data you can do a lot of other business ventures with it. amazon buying whole foods is a good example. i am not saying the anyone of this companies has violated antitrust law but i am saying that the rapid growth and expansion of this companies to give rise to antitrust consideration and i think we are entering a new era of antitrust jurisprudence. we are living through it right now. we will need more guidance and enforcement moving forward. >> how it disappointed are you that google is not showing up next week? do you think the outcome back to hurt them? >> google does have i think some answers that we need to hear from in terms of advertising. yes i am disappointed. anytime you are called before congress to answer questions, you should come. there are legitimate public policy considerations that i feel we are entitled to an

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the federal trade commission, the e.u., has looked at this and said google was fiddling with the algorithmat second strike was the work died by robert epstein that shows clearly in 2016 that search was tilted to favor hillary clinton. this is strike three, shows the culture of the company is such that they are very happy having a free and open conversation about manipulating the algorithm on a highly political -- >> tucker: people go to jail for violating campaign finance laws because they put an extra ad on a cable channel no one watches. this is the most powerful company in the world. how could we have a democracy in the country were google can get whoever it wants elected by lying through us through the search function? >> it's a great example, tucker, of regulations and campaign finance laws not keeping up where we are in technology. when we pass laws about in-kind contribution from campaigns from companies that something like this would happen. this is the ultimate, ultimate, campaign contribution. this is not like exxon giving gasoline to a political campaign. this is a company secre

we found dozens of complaints filed with the federal trade commission by people claiming their identities were used to create rideshare accounts. here in california, the dmv investigates counterfeit driver's license and fraudulent documents. >> this is brand-new to us and we welcome the fact that you're bringing it to us. >> reporter: his office can look into fake accounts but much of the responsibility lies with the companies themselves. >> we really do put the front end of the work to the companies because they're the ones that put the process in place to establish if is this the person we're dealing with. >> reporter: liz has already knowledged cracks in its driver authentication system. he fraudulently represented himself to gain employment as a driver. we wanted to ask lyft what its doing to safeguard against fraud but the company declined our interview request saying only, what's being described is concerning. we have a dedicated team that investigates fraudulent behavior which may result in immediate deactivation from the platform. uber pointed to several measures it uses to preven

we found dozens of complaints filed with the federal trade commission by people claiming their identities were used to create rideshare accounts. here in california, the dmv investigates counterfit driver licenses and fraudulent documents. >> we welcome the fact that you're bringing this to us. >> reporter: he says his office can look into fake accounts, but much of the responsibility lies with the companies themselves. >> we put the front end of the work to the companies, because they put the processes in place to establish is this the person we're dealing with? >> not only did he trick women -- >> reporter: take the recent case of the alleged rideshare rapist. lyft says he fraudulently represented himself to gain employment as a driver. we wanted to ask lyft what it's doing to safeguard against fraud, but the company declined our interview request, saying only what is being described as extremely concerning. uber pointed to several measures it uses to prevent account sharing and detect fraud. it says just because someone creates an account doesn't mean it can be rented successfully. >>

here is if you get a deal with silicon valley giants and washington politicians to make the federal trade commissionnternet regulator, i think we would all regret it forever. david: i think you may be right. kim, the bias does appear to be real. congressman jim jordan and others were talking about how they were shadow ban by twitter, an expression, a way they can ban, subtle banning of what they do, what should government do if anything, the president himself said earlier that he doesn't want regulation of the internet, but he says he wants things to change, how do you change things if you don't regulate? >> well, look, one thing keeping attention on it like they did with the hearings which in my mind is the best way forward. if there's enough pressure on them they will eventually hopefully change practices, but history shows that if they don't act on their own the american people will ask them to do it and will find themselves in a much more worse situation. david: dan, there's competition, you don't have to go to google, by the way google was a no-show at the conference. they didn't show up at all

we don't regulate in terms of -- as you pointed it out it is more of the federal trade commission's job. we don't see the segmentation of essentially the segmentation of the internet where what kind of experience depends on where you are, and then you see regions competing with each other and countries competing with each other to see who can regulated -- regulate its more heavily, that sort of race to the bottom that i don't think serve anyone else well and long-term. jesse: i think the speech conversation is valuable, but it might be a downer at times. ajit: yeah. i don't know. [speaking simultaneously] there is a lot of promise for emerging technologies to make people's lives better. all right when you're providing , value to consumers, when you are giving them that thing that last year they couldn't even imagine and next year they can't live without, that genuinely improves people's lives. and so i imagine you would have , an opportunity to see a lot of emerging technologies or to get a sense of some of the major trends. if you think about the major technologies that are coming to t