joining us, recode editor and cnbc contributor, kara swisher nice to have you, especially here at postatest on facebook and data sharing with partners, it seems to me the core issue is facebook has always been about more sharing is good. don't worry about sharing. it makes your life better. now it is clear sharing doesn't always make our lives better, but facebook doesn't seem to have changed its message claims we dealt with the problems before, it is okay now, but more stuff keeps cropping up. >> a lot of it is about sloppy management of the platform some of the things they're doing to integrate with partners is fine, it makes it easier to make everything work with one another, android works with facebook, spotify. there should be some sharing among companies. that's a fair thing to say facebook should do i think it is disclosure, how they do it, what they give away. every time they give away too much or you don't know what you're doing, you're not getting consent. consent is difficult here. it is complex at the same time but the problem is their business is based on them having enorm

with us now for her predictions on the big story lines that investors need to watch, kara swisher.appy new year >> hey happy new year to you, too >> where do we start here? i'm thinking regulation. put a lot of these names under pressure we can start to see that this year here in the u.s.? >> well, you know, i don't know because there's a lot to happen in congress. obviously they're dealing with with the shutdown and everything else so it is on the mind of democrats to start thinking about legislation or investigation or pressing the ftc to do more to look at some of these companies like facebook and google and amazon i guess. there's just a lot going on in washington, so tech is sort of in the good spot in this way there's too much going on. but i do see definite interest in what happened, trying to figure out what to put into place around privacy there will be a lot of action in the states in term of privacy. we'll see about antitrust. i think that's a developing story over a longer time period, but a lot of people are thinking about antitrust issues and if these companies are to

heard from open ai chairman sam altman and kara swisher at an event in san francisco. this is one hour, 20 minutes. >> so we are going to kind of move chronologically here, and i want you guys, for those in the audience have not been in conversations with you already and have not met you, talk about the utopia, when they thought about how technology and the world wide web would interact with politics. what did people think was going to happen with the intersection of tech and politics?

. >>> so in 2007 kara swisher and i were lucky enough to get bill gates and steve jobs on a stage togetherthe first software company, before anybody really knew what a software company was. >> if you were going to pick two people who basically started the personal tech revolution, they were the right two people to pick. >> what's the greatest misunderstanding in your relationship about each other? the idea of catfight, this idea of -- which of the many? >> we've kept our marriage secret for over a decade now. >> these two people were the most significant forces in technology through our era. and to see them together praising each other and jabbing each other a little in the ribs -- >> i know steve's going to announce his transporter. >> it was really a great moment. and i was lucky to have seen it. >> you are competitors in certain ways. >> we watch the commercials. >> and you get annoyed at each other from time to time. >> i have to confess, i like pc guy. >> he's great. >> i like him. >> the art of those commercial is not to be mean but it's actually for the guys to like each other. >> i

. >> narrator: kara swisher has covered zuckerberg since the beginning.nterviewed him after the company had changed its defaults privacy sett >> do you feel like it's a backlash? do you feel like you are violating people's privacy? and when we started to ask questions, he became increasingly uncomfortable. >> you know, it's... >> i tnk the issue is, you became the head of the biggest social networking company on the planet. >> yh, no, so... but i... th interesting thing is that, you know, so i started this when i was, you know, started working on this ty of stuff when i was 18. >> so he started to sweat quite a lot, and then a lot a lot, and then a real lot. so the kind that... this kind of thing where, younow, like "broadcast news," where it was dripping down, like, or tom cruise in that "mission: im wssible." just... it was going to his chin and dripping off. >> you know, a lot of stuff changed as we've gone from building this project in a dorm room... >> and it wasn't stopping and i was noticing that one of the people from facebook was, like, "oh, my g

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heard from open ai chairman sam altman and kara swisher at an event in san francisco. this is one hour, 20 minutes. >> so we are going to kind of move chronologically here, and i want you guys, for those in the audience have not been in conversations with you already and have not met you, talk about the utopia, when they thought about how technology and the world wide web would interact with politics. what did people think was going to happen with the intersection of tech and politics? kara: i would start with they didn't know at all. i think the thought was that they knew what they were doing. a lot of things get written after they become billionaires or after they become successful, but having been there, and i worked for "the washington post" when the internet was born, not when it was born because it was there as a government entity, but when it was commercialized for the first time when they released it, and there was legislation, which i covered, and al gore -- that is how i met him, because was a principal senator behind it, and he invented the internet and was

. >> predictions on retail in 2019 when we come back, kara swisher will be b here to look at tech trends aly"omle cing up next. don't go waway dow's up 142 swisher test. >>> good morning it is midnight a new year in hong kong. "squawk alley" is live ♪