of privacy laws and the first lawsuit european rights group is suing google facebook instagram and whatsapp it says then making uses consent to the new terms by threatening to delete their accounts the u.s. tech giants could face half the fines they have whole departments to look after that what about small businesses your headdress a bookshop will plummet there on the internet too same rules apply they're worried about complying with the hundreds of pages of regulations understanding it all is a headache. stuffed of paper. of the new e.u. data rules have chamber of crafts president stumped as this one part of course is heavy stuff and e.u. commission a very euro vote tells us to keep cool the flood of information is more confusing than helpful the law wasn't really aimed at trades people. for brussels to create here that applies equally to social media giants as it does to small workshops and it's two hundred fifty six pages thick that's one page for every working day of the year and it takes you all your time just to work out what they're after our members are completely overwhelmed. i ro

today, complaints against google, facebook, instagram, and what sap were filed for raking the gdp are fines could be as much as $9 billion. on top of that, google and cebook were hit with eight billion-dollar lawsuits. >> one of the things that has really happened in this environment is that our data is treated with not that much respect. there are a lot of companies who got in a huge, serious scandals for not treating and protecting our data correctly. and this is really a response to that. >> -- to comply with gdp are. they are disputing the complaints. >>> omer president barack obama spotted here in the bay area. today, sacramento kings owner tweeted out this photo of the two playing golf, with the caption 18 with 44. yesterday a crowd greeted the former president as he left the air b&b offices in san francisco. >> aren't you supposed to be at work right now? >> about 100 people were cheering as president obama left the building. air b&b said their ceo invited him to participate in a discussion of their headquarters. >>> happy couples marching their way to one of the highest peaks

already rolling in a quick up pretty impressive stuff that european rights group is suing google facebook instagram and whatsapp it says they have making uses consent to their new jobs by threatening to delete their accounts the u.s. tech giants could face hefty fines but they have whole departments to look after that sort of stuff what about small businesses headdress of books up. there along the internet to same rules apply but they're worried about complying with the hundreds of pages of regulations just understanding it all is a major challenge. a stack of paper. of the new e.u. data rules have doris chamber of cross president stumped because it's from the heart of course it's heavy stuff from the commission a very robust tells us to keep cool the flood of information is more confusing than helpful the law wasn't really aimed at trades people. for brussels to create here that applies equally to social media giants as it does to small workshops and it's two hundred fifty six pages thick that's one page for every working day of the year and it takes you all your time just to work out what they're

ads, to censorship, no algo >> i've got accounts with facebook, google, instagram,te twand youtube, and it's now investigating to see just how many cookies are out ther i've got 75 tracking me. >> what i've learned this year is that we year is that we need to take a broader view of our responsibility. it's not enough just to build powerful tools, we need to make they're used for good. >> it's very interesting that facebook have taken a preemptive measure against these new rules coming into place and they've umoved 1.5 billion facebors out of the european jurisdiction. >> reporter: zuckerberg's address to european m.p.'s is being seen in london as a snub to the british parliam >> what we've said is that he won't accept to come to the u.k. to give evidence to the committee we will issue a summons against him the next time he enters the jisdiction of the u.k. authorities demanding at that point that he does give evidence. >> reporter: digital experts on this side of the atlan believe that the new european regulations will ultimately benefit americans if they decide d ey are being short cha

i'm curious, how do you think google comparison to facebook when it comes to the idea of they a monopoly given that own whatsapp, instagramook messenger. is google a bigger offender? >> i think google has been an offender longer. i try to be careful of my comments on companies. i have spent a long time studying google, but i have not gotten those complaints yet about facebook. i want to be more circumspect. i don't think the right approach is to try to compare one to the other. rather, we evaluate each one against the legal standard. is a completee record in europe and a record developed by the ftc and the united states, with respect to google's antitrust behavior. that's the next thing that has to have. emily: that was antitrust lawyer gary. coming up, we head back to paris as french president macron posts dozens of tech leaders this week. we hear from the ceo of the european unicorn group. this is bloomberg. emily: ibm has announced it is hiring 1400 employees in france over the next two years. the new positions will focus on ai, blockchain, and cybersecurity. europe has become a draw for tech companies big and small. .

facebook or apple. we took the numbers on that. i'm curious, gary, how do you thing google compares to facebook when it comes to the idea of being a monopoly given that facebook also owns whatsapp, instagramok messenger? is google so much bigger an offender? gary: well, i think that google has been an offender longer. i try to be careful about my comments on companies. i have spent a long time andi have spent a long time studying google, nine years. but i have not gotten those kind of complaints yet about facebook, so i want to be more circumspect in terms of what i say. i don't think the right approach is to try to compare one to the other. rather we evaluate each one against the legal standard. right now, there is a complete record in europe. there is a record developed by the ftc in the united states, all with respect to google's antitrust behavior. we ought to move on that record. that is the next thing that needs to happen. emily: that was antitrust lawyer gary and also brian white. coming up, we head back to paris as french president macron hosted dozens of tech leaders this week. we are going to hear from the ceo of the european unicorn delivery. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: ibm has

one against facebook, one each against instagram and one against google's android. hope that he will win. and his basic argument is to say that it requires informed consent and that what they are actually doing is forced consent. because of you don't consent, then you can't access any of the... because of you don't consent, then you can't access any of the. .. the whole point about this this is about empowering you and me to make sure your data safe. so there's a lot of confusion and then in other story, that the church of england is told not to publish prayer request for the sick without their permission because this is the huge amount of uncertainty about how far people can go and where the line in the sand is. and i think that is a real problem because, we will be getting e—mails but unsubscribing. if you publish a prayer request online and use details of the names and the reason why the prayer request is needed, that could be put oi'i request is needed, that could be put ona request is needed, that could be put on a church website or newsletter, so on a church w

in the last few minutes we have heard that four complaints have been made against google, what's up, facebook and instagramt either you sign up and agree to have targeted advertising and hand over all of your data or you do not use the service and that bundling is not allowed under gdpr, you have to be able to cut separate out the consent for the service and for the advertising. that is very interesting. for all of us on the receiving end of the e—mails, if we are receiving end of the e—mails, if we a re really receiving end of the e—mails, if we are really missing the e—mail from a particular company missing up in our inbox we can opt in again. watch out though there are scammers and fissures sending e—mails at the moment and hoping you will click another button. very good advice. thank you for answering your questions. we will now take another look at the scene in new york where we are waiting for the arrival of harvey weinstein, the movie producer accused of rape and sexual assault by d oze ns accused of rape and sexual assault by dozens of women in a story that began to unfold to the wider public view

on friday, and cnn has learned separate lawsuits have already been filed against facebook, google, what's app and instagram, alleging that the companies are failing to comply. >> that's right. testifying in front of eu leaders on tuesday, facebook's ceo mark zuckerberg insisted that his company would follow the rules. but as our samuel burke reports, legal experts report that facebook is already violating the new law. >> reporter: austrian lawyer max schrems has been fighting facebook in court over data privacy for nearly a decade. and today he wasted little time. his ngo suing facebook for allegedly violating the eu's new data protection law called gdpr the day it came into force. >> we're looking for big companies that willfully violate the law, that try to ignore it and try to get away with it. >> reporter: schrems who helped writing the legislation says he is taking action because they're violating the law. >> they're saying we don't want this. we think it's stupid so we don't want to comply with it. and then there is business interests. there is certain things you can't do with data anymore. >> report

facebook or apple. we pulled the numbers on that. how do you think google compares to facebook when it comes to the idea of being a monopoly given that facebook owns whatsapp and instagramthers. is it that big an offender? gary: i think google has been an offender longer. i tried to be careful with my comments on companies. i spent nine years studying google. i haven't got to those kinds of facebook complaints yet. i want to be more circumspect in what i say. i don't think the right approach is to compare one to the other. rather, we have value in each one against the legal standard. right now there is a complete record in europe. there is a record developed by the fcc in the united states all with respect to google's antitrust behavior. we have to move on that record. that is what has to happen. emily: gary, you pursued the case against google in the eu. the company was fined $2.7 billion. google is appealing that decision. how do you expect this to play out? gary: i would expect in europe -- this is a decision by the european commission. i expect the courts would uphold the european commission not only because their record is good and the investigation was thorough. t

so we're doing a voter registration video and using facebook and instagram and google ads to try to get people in tennessee to see those and know how to access our on-line voter registration system and i wasn't sure how it was working and my son who is on instagram, i actually thought our communications director might have pocketed the money and not used it doing advertising and my 10-year-old son said he was on instagram and saw the advertisement. good news he did not want to register to vote. i want to assure you of that. usi using google ads, seeing people interested in the election process and get them in our on-line voter registration system and we will be using the same type of feature to use our voter app. we have a very good go vote app in tennessee that we're using and we got to make sure that people get the message of how to use that so they can know where they can go vote, know how to participate in the process, be able to see the ballot that is going to be specific to them and their address. we want tennesseans to be educated consumers with their vote and want them to have a

google for a long time. >> yeah. >> in a way you've got facebook. >> yeah. >> that has its own ambitions, its own search internally. instagramcho does search siri does search is the argument weaker now about google's monopoly power to connect people in businesses than it was four years ago >> well, you know, yelp has been banging this drum. margarethe a lot of people have talked about t we've had jeremy on, luther lowe, who works for yelp. this is not a new topic by any -- it's sort of steve mnuchin who has nothing to do with anti-trust flapping his lips about it. it's fine. what's interesting is that now there's more of an anti-tech bias by politicians here in this country who have essentially done nothing to do anything about as this power grew every time they had a chance to regulate these companies, they never d i think the real problem is regulators, that they didn't take the chance as these companies were growing what's happening now is interesting. microsoft was alone, if you recall, jon. it was by itself you have google, facebook, apple, and all kinds of players that are powerful in their own way but they also compet

today, complaints against school, facebook, instagram and what's up were filed for breaking the gdp are, th uld be $9 billion. on top of that, google facebook were hit with a billion-dollar lawsuits. >> one of the things that is happening in this environment is our data is treated with not a lot of respect. many companies have gotten into huge scandals for not treating and protecting our data correctly. this is a response. >> dozens of companies including google and facebook spent months writing new rules to comply with the gdp are and they are disputing the complaints. >>> a 111-year-old woman from san francisco recently had to prove to the feds that she is still alive. the government said that lucy mirigian was sent a letter that maybe got lost or thrown out and said she did not respond they cut her monthly pension check for decades of work on the old u.s. mint at market street. lucy and her family try desperately to tell the government that she was still alive, no one wanted to listen. her family called congresswoman, jackie speer, who was able to get to the bottom of it and cleared up. >> i have seen people say i am too old, i

organization called none of your business has filed for complaints against facebook it's a series what's up in instagram as well as google's android and his point of course is that these companies have asked users to take off privacy boxes agreeing to their new policies or risk losing access to the services now this says that this is a form of forced consent and obviously forced consent is not the point of a regulation that seeks to hand more control to users over their personal data now they could face hefty fines if they fight if the courts find out that max trans is right fines could go up to four percent of global revenue so just to put that into perspective for facebook that would be one point six billion dollars based on last year's revenue and for all google's parent alphabet it would be four point four billion so quite hefty. to brussels now correspond to gild much as cultural was vero. commission and the justice and consumer. commissioner you have thought long and hard for this how significant are the changes we're about to see that are significant changes father citizens of the e.u. because we run them to be bett

concentration of power, 80% of the social traffic on the web goes through facebook's servers, it's instagram and what's app. googleabout me between g-mail and google maps more than anyone in the world. there's an agreement that these companies have gotten very big very fast and there's a need for regulation, and mark, himself, weeks ago said that's needed now, at the same time, i think installing the questioning that happened that we as members of civil society need to work on educating elected leaders and people in those positions of power to understand better how these companies work >> was there a viewpoint of connect people and our friends, and then, oh, gosh, we make money from the information was it just an evolution of thinking >> i think -- well, speaking about facebook's case, there's always been a mission to connect the world. i think that there was a sense early on, particularly in the way that mark talked about it, that this could be a social utility, could be a kind of the pipes for social connection, and that there was a sense of connection in and of itself was good, and connection can be good in som

google, might they, you know, might they already be catching unor caught up by you know, wechat to be interest liesed. the one gse the -- but thing echat has is that system where instagram and facebooknot have. we will have to see. >> >> describe to me what you mean by social e-commerce? >> social e-commerce is to help drive the sales of merchandise. what's going on is this. that the chinese customer is using mobile as a point of making a purchase. and therefore what also is happening is that companies are using customer service online. they are talking to other friends and people that are buying things. the chinese consumer wants to get validation for what they're purchasing. so that's twhire reaching out to other people. landscape, i'll get violations for their purchases. >> alibaba is going from clicks into brickses. do they need to keep pace? >> you know what, i think that each of the two companies are kind of going into different directions. but i think that's ok. you know, alibaba has the content where they are wriring dart store and to be part of their echo seasonal as well. there's plentoy of business to be had for both of them. and the strategies it would be ok. >> it feels

a site that got searched by google and that was being on-line and now in a mobile and social world having a restaurant means you need to be on yelp and instagram and facebook's a proliferation of places that you not only have to be and look great and for us that's an opportunity. go central which is our website building, really on-line presence platform, you not only can build a great site but also connect that site content into social media and for our customers that's solving a huge pain point which is boy, they have to have similar content looking great, not in one place but in some cases 6, 10, 12 places and that's the problem that we're helping them solve. >> appreciate your time. interesting stuff. stock reflecting the quarter today. please come back soon. >> thanks. thanks a bunch jassy shows up i want to be invited for pancakes >> or wings, i guess. >> yes. >> wings or pancakes thanks bye. >> when we come back, the ceo of postmates will join us on a day when e-commerce is front and center with walmart announcing its biggest acquisition ever the dow back into positive territory this morning and the s&p still hanging on to that year to date gain. "sq

google stock is pleased apart from the episode, they have been on facebook, not them, and focus back on facebook tomorrow morning, of course, with zuckerberg >> calling consumers to break facebook and messenger and instagram, i think >> all platforms you use >> true. anyway, that's another story 40 minutes until the close now dow took on a 300 point game, s&p 19, nasdaq up 9, and russell with another all-time high today. >>> review of the model 3, and what could have bulls pumping the brakes >>> how high will crude rise levels not seen since 2014 what's behind the rally? what's it mean for your wallet it can grow out of control, disrupting business and taking on a life of its own. its multi-cloud complexity creating friction... and slowing innovation. with software-defined solutions, like hpe oneview, you can tame the it monster. hewlett packard enterprise. less complexity. more visibility. >>> welcome back, that wedding between harry and meghan was a big hit in terms of tv viewership in the u.s. with over 29 million people tuning in, increase from the 23 million who watched william and kate marry in 2011. in the u.k., it was 18 million compared to 19 million for william and kate >> that's telling, americ

instagram it is important for people to vote with their feed, about privacy breaches, or go somewhere else. that competitive constraint disciplines companies. if they have competition, it disciplines their behavior. facebook and google can pursue their business model without concern about the consequences. people don't have an ability to vote with their feed. google has 80% worldwide search market share. facebook has 250 million monthly users. use outlook rhythms to put content that creates the most engagement, which makes people fearful. facebook is choosing to prioritize fake news over the real news and can do it with impunity. that can cover the realm of the harms -- that does not cover ealm of the harms that are happening. of the companies gets bigger, the more people have to ride their rails. they are often paying out substantial sums of money in order to reach consumers. ch, you could build a website and try to attract people based on the quality of the website and you would investor money in quality. the search engines, you would start putting more money into search engines. as long as you had real good quality, you have the chance to earn users, because you were innovating. as google got more market power, i

out against facebook, instagram and google. you have been doing your homework. happen is that these companies could get completely taken apart by this. get completely taken apart by this. to affect some of the smaller companies. it could be a storm in a teacup. teacup. taken advantage of by people like a privacy group in austria. privacy group in austria. well as to make a legal point as well. yes, the fines could be enormous. homebase sold for a pound. everybody‘s nightmare investment. you put in 350 million, if you have it, and you get £1 back. it, and you get £1 back. cost them about half £1 billion which they will have to write off. which they will have to write off. group and it will probably mean more store closures. wesfarmers got it wrong. wrong. australian company, but it was a british company. british company. for industrial chic type of style and did not work. chief investment officer at kleinwort hambros. let's talk about homebase. textbook example of how not to take over the company. over the company. homebase was hit from two angles. from two angles