international community specifically five countries want him to attend an international conference and talk about hate speech privacy issues and the usual crimes at the international community and other everybody thinks that they're committing. said no the countries involved are the u.k. ireland canada australia and argentina now earlier the u.k. had just invited him separately to come before their parliament and discuss these issues and he said no so you know zuckerberg is digging in deeper and deeper here they're feeling he's not cooperating by refusing to show up to this conference later in the month now the e.u. in april as we know and we've talked about past regulations on not only facebook but on social media companies when it comes to privacy that's their main concern privacy people's data being shared so now if you want to share your data you have to get permission otherwise they should can theoretically share your data and if you're sharing it you want to take it back and say no more they have to stop it immediately or face a fine how that's working out i'm not too sure facebook has recently find a half a m

some companies related to violations of data protection rules the complaint was sent from privacy international that's a not for profit based in london which seeks to protect privacy rights for consumers around the globe they sent a letter to french british and irish regulators and specifically requested the regulators examine oracle the software company credit rating rating firms experian and equifax and data broker companies axion criterial quantcast and tadpoles they can complaint from privacy international as the companies lack they lack legal authority to buy or sell the data of online consumers ali chandler legal officer of privacy international said part of the company's biz. those models are about fundamentally exploiting data and they therefore clash with many of the provisions of the new general data protection rules. and now we move to cars and we had the car coach with us herself lauren fix hey lauren thank you for being with us you know consumer confidence is still high but these interest rates start increasing and some buyers car buyers that is appear to be moving to used cars or

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privacy law. he says europe has now established an international standard for internet privacy, and companies like facebook, google and amazon are not about to retreat from a $17 trillion market. >> o'dell: we have safety standards in cars, but that hasn't stopped us driving cars. we have emissions standards for the gas in the cars, but that hasn't stopped us using the gas in the cars. the data companies are, going to comply in the same way as the car companies have complied.ins. >> o'dell: to stay in business. >> kroft: since the european privacy law was passed, at least ten other countries have adopted similar rules. so has the state of california. perhaps sensing the inevitable, facebook, twitter, google, and amazon are now saying they could support a u.s. privacy law, if they were given considerable input. the internet association, which lobbies for big tech, and its president, michael beckerman, say they would support giving americans reasonable access to their information, and some privacy rights now enjoyed by the europeans. >> kroft: from your point of view, who owns the data that's collec

privacy battle. according to internal e-mails seen by "the wall street journal," facebook once weighed the idea of chargingontinued access to user data. the e-mails which date back to 2012 reportedly show facebook pushing some advertisers to spend more in return for increased access to user information. >>> marlboro maker altria in talks to take minority stake in juule lab. >> juule was last valued at $16 billion. according to "the wall street journal," any deal between the two companies is likely several weeks away, but would represent a major reordering of the cigarette industry. altria has seen its stock fall nearly 20% over the past year as it struggles with declines in traditional smokers. >>> also new, apple has an update on the newest iphone. the tech giant saying the iphone xr has been the best selling model since it hit the market last month. this is apple's first official comment on how the newest iphone sales are doing. it's come at a time when the company is struggling with slowing iphone demand. >>> this morning tesla has a new milestone to celebrate. >> the owners have clocked in a ch whoppin

united states steve malzberg joins us to discuss plus we take a longer look at privacy issues around the world with international regulatory attorney miles edwards and later host of the big picture right here in r.t. america holland joins us to talk about generations see and tells us about their decidedly different spending habits all that straight ahead but first we had a few headlines. big four accounting firm k p m g is the first of the four to say they will abandon client work which creates conflicts of interest for the company according to k. p. m. g. executive decision is an effort to remove even the perception of a possible conflict of interests k p m g has been particularly pronounced big blip on the regulatory radar in connection to their client giant u.k. construction perm karelian which collapsed due to what members of parliament called reckless behavior made pos.

international body has to keep an eye on facebook? this is beginning to come to a crunch point, yes, because of privacy breaches that are happening all e processes of monitoring that and the internal regulations and self—regulation that hasn't worked and now we are in a position where we have to create international standards for this. easier said than done. absolutely. climate change, the un report is not good reading at all. they are saying we have to slash emissions five times the current target, and the current targets are tough to hit already. yes, and there is an eu report saying it will cost nearly 300 billion euros to address and get to this zero emissions target, so the world is at a tipping point and i think it is fair to say that the plastics debate and the campaign against plastics and now climate change, because of the warm summer we have had, the wildfires, we are beginning to have it pointed out on a daily basis that things are changing. key political leaders are not on board, namely the us president, and that is critical, isn't it, meeting these targets as the globe, not just isn't it, meeting these targets as the glob

san jose, ann rubin, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> the british parliament seized internal facebook documents as part of a hearing over privacy and false information on the social media site. the documents were taken by british investigators from an american app developer on a business trip to london. facebook is fighting the release of those documents and its unrelated legal battle in california. the international hearing begins tomorrow in london. mark zuckerberg was invited but declined to attend. >> translator: we have to do more in terms of cooperation between countries and with private actors but, the devastating effects of what has happened are there. >> reporter: meantime, facebook has lost more than $100 billion in value since the cambridge analytica scandal back in march in which millions of users had and a lot of applause, as nasa's insight successfully lands on mars. still ahead, we'll tell you about what the insight plans to do over the next few years. >>> and we're tracking the rain heading your way. it's going to be here over the next 24 hours. wet commutes in store for the rest of this week. >>> coming up at 7

tweeted of an empty chair after the facebook founder failed to show up for an international hearing on fake news and privacycerns. alex webb joins us now. there was a certain amount of theater around all of this. how seriously should we take it? alex: there was no chance he was ever going to turn up. we also had representatives from belgium, france, argentina, brazil, singapore. they claimed in total they represented the interests of more than 400 million people. they already had the cto of facebook earlier this year. he said can't answer that question, let me get back to you. the argument from the parliamentarians then was, we didn't have a real answer, we need somebody who can answer the questions, and we think that person is mark zuckerberg. richard allen turned up and he couldn't answer questions either. i think we know very little more heading up it and i did heading into it. was,ew york times headline denied, delay and deflect. that seems to be what he was doing. the canadian chair race that very point that, we would get back to you later, know that reporting is it accurate or, i'm not entirely sure,

privacy. of people to see. a welcome back this is r t international now the british government is facing a wave of criticism for its handling of the aftermath of the grunfeld tower fire seventy two people died a year ago in a blaze that engulfed a block of flats in london and westminster has been accused of placing gagging orders on experts investigating the tragedy artie's honest as he brings us more. well love critics of the british government have dubbed it shameful in light of information that has emerged about a company that was hired just days following the grand fell fire tragedy to analyze and investigate u.k. government state building safety and that company was reportedly told not to criticize to resubmit and her government this was revealed as part of a comprehensive investigation carried out by the times newspaper which disclosed that among hundreds of other contracts the specific one hundred thousand pounds contract with an engineering company called w s p had instructed that particular company not to quote create. adverse publicity for the cabinet or other crown bodies when looking at the situatio

. >>> facebook up 3%, remaining under fire after uk parliament seized internal documents related to the privacyssues earlier this year. coo sheryl sandberg getting plenty of the blame for the crisis management. our next guest asks why is everyone ready to forgive the man that runs neighbor kara joins us this morning >> hi, how are you doing >> i had some of the same issues that you mentioned in this column seems to me if mark zuckerberg had been asking questions about the way they were managing the reputational crisis, sheryl sandberg wouldn't be able to forget there might have been more attention to it. he likes to focus on making facebook, not so much on explaining facebook. he views it as a chore. >> i don't know, if he is the ceo, he has to run the company my issue wasn't with sheryl's management which has myriad of problems and deserves a lot of blame for what happened, the two of them are together as a team, you know, but i think what the issue is the way she attacked it is different from him. people tend to give him a pass he is busy making product. he doesn't understand this oh, this an

awhile now around privacy issues the latest seems to be less about new privacy issues, more about the way management has responded internallythings what do you make of the best way for facebook to work its way out of this stage? >> this is a pretty serious crises shareholders no longer want to hold stock, you're seeing the stock collapse if you look at employee morale, it is low, and founders that sold to facebook, to zuckerberg, made billions of dollars, have been incredibly critical of mark zuckerberg which is incredible when you think about it. give somebody a couple billion dollars, they criticize you on the way out the door but advertisers love the platform a anecdotally, private companies i work with, it is the only game to reach users at this level of scale. one has to wonder if the fourth constituent, governments around the world, are going to put up with democracy being compromised. you put those four stakeholders together, it is a true crisis for facebook this could be, it is possible, probable, this could be the aol peak, yahoo peak it took a decade or two for those companies to deprecate facebook is 2.5 billion

international politicians. lawmakers from nine different countries grilled richard allen demanding answers from facebook on data privacy, security and safety. facebook executives acknowledged that the company is partly to brain -- blame on how it handled past scandals. they cannot be trusted to police itself is what they are facing. >>> huber has been find $1 million. they did not report the breach within 72 hours as required by regulation. >>> let's check wall street. we have about 45 minutes to go before the closing bell and the dallas in green territory. up the rain is here and mary is here with the forecast. >> yes. we are tracking it for you. that light to moderate rain will push across the bay area. this movement so you can see the locations. across the north bay you're getting moderate rain. down through santa rosa and pat aloma, light rain. as we head across the east bay down through brentwood you can see light rain. around san francisco, right along the coast you can see the rain down through pacific up. we're tracking all of that. this is a live look you can see the cloudy and foggy conditions ahead of the ra

privacy in the u.s. might soon be out of our hands. companies operating international ail are being forced to adapt to regulations implemented in foreign countries. if we want to play a role in shaping those policies to suit our own notions of privacy, we need to get engaged. this will require the public and private sectors to take a holistic approach to addressing privacy concerns associated with our increasing reliance on digital technologies. perhaps as in europe we need new comprehensive requirements to regulate how our personal information can be used, shared or disseminated online. or perhaps we don't need any additional government regulation as simply updating our current lace to reflect the state of technology today might be sufficient. alternatively voluntary industry generated approaches might also meet our needs. i'm not here to advocate any of these or other potential approaches but rather my point is simply that we must have a societal dialogue about how we want to confront the problem. even more broadly, though, we need to be asking ourselves the more fun

privacy. hosted by the meridian international center, it's two hours and 20 minutes. >> announcer: president and ceo meridian national center we welcome to the stage. >> good morning, everyone. it's a pleasure to have you here for the seventh annual meridian global leadership summit. we have many distinguished guests and participants this morning. i would like to welcome senator wicker, of course, congressman rooney, congressman bart gordon. we've got many ambassadors here, some of whom are going to participate in the panel. governor blanchard, our former chair, and secretary carlos gutierrez, our current chair and many trustees. so welcome to you all. it is an appropriate day for us to be here, i think, with everything that is going on in the world. the newspapers are filled with conflicting impressions, people struggling and trying to understand economic and political movements, populism, nationalism, technology. for this particular summit, we decided to take a deeper dive into the effect of technology on our global landscape, whether it's foreign policy, business, innovation, because this is

privacy. >> beginning we don't sell customers data. it is not -- we use it internallyecommendation, we don't franchise it out if you will. we also think about for very beginning customer should be in control of that data. if you say something to an echo and blue light goes on, it goes to crowd, you don't' it to happen, you should be able to delete it. reporter: now interesting that david limp said data and gut feel is part of reason they chose two cities they did for amazon second headquarters, to fine enough tech talent and places they wanted to live in. >> this is liz, one thing that is fascinating, one of top people is joh john chae check of waymo. he must be in demand. that waymo will roll out in next two months, its self-driving vehicles in arizona, they have done millions of miles in testing, they are first? reporter: we caught up with john at breakfast, he said he had an announcement during his visioned that was it. they promise 2018. their self driving vehicle service, it will be small, start in phoenix, a small select group. then he said he wants to target bus

privacy controls. that lawsuit was in california. the company was able to obtain some internalacebook communications. last week, the british parliament was upset over mark zuckerberg's failure to testify in the u.k. and the testimony being it disingenuous. they got the founder of the app company to turn over the internal correspondences they obtained or the court process. -- through the court process. what did they say? it could be internal communication about how facebook obtains information, from home, and -- from whom, and how they manage the information. this could be damaging to facebook. emily: how concerned are you about the concern from other governments? brian: investors should be concerned. the stock should not be up on this. i realize there is a market level issue going on but i think a better way to characterize it is, this can't be good, it can only be bad. if you want to bet on facebook versus governments of the world, unless you think facebook will take the budget and invest in nuclear weapons, i would bet on governments of the world. government is choosing to ex

privacy controls and what information it collected. so that lawsuit was here in california. the company was able to obtain through discovery some internalebook communications. fast forward to last week when the british parliament, very upset over mark zuckerberg's fail yaur to testify in the u.k. -- failure to testify in the u.k., the testimony brian alluded to earlier being disingenuous went and got the founder of this app company six four three and got him to turn over the internal correspondences they had obtained thraw the court process. what do they say? it could be internal communication between the executives including zuckerberg about how facebook obtains information, from who, and whether they're being disingenuous in terms of privacy controls and how they manage that information. it could be very damaging to facebook. emily: so how concerned are you about this concern from other governments? brian: well, it's not that i'm concerned. i think more investors should be concerned. i mean, the stock is -- should not be up on this. i realize there is a market level issue going on. but i think that a better way to characterize it is t

internal papers which are said to include conversations between c.e.o. mark zuckerberg and top facebook executives they are believed to include information on how decisions were made on data privacy controls which played a part in the cambridge analytic a scandal and the documents were handed over by a third party just in time for tomorrow's meeting in london of seven nations that the first international grand committee on this information for mr zucker byrd has decided to skip despite being asked to attend and answer question here to tell us what this all means as conservative commentator steve malzberg hey steve thank you for look at this this is super interesting these documents i read were part of a court case in the u.s. and they were under seal by a u.s. judge so i don't know how they leaked out to parliament what do you know. it is so bizarre and thanks for having me ok so this is a court case in california this guy who ran. an app which by the way let you find friends of yours posing in bikinis claims that facebook changed the rules on him and somehow ruined his business and facebook says that's not true so it's a court case in california but as part of disclosure he got

privacy concerns. kris van cleave is at heartsfield jackson international airport. >> reporter: good morning. you see all of these lights here. these are all cameras. some of the 84 installed in this terminal. basically, you go up to the cameras. if the turns green, your face has been verified. that's how it's going to work at the kiosk. even tsa, it will save you 20 seconds a person. at the gate, up to nine minutes a flight. >> face the camera. >> reporter: flyers are checking in to the future. at atlanta's international terminal. starting tomorrow, terminal f will be the first fully bio metric airport experience, allowing passengers to just use their face at a kiosk to check bags at the counter, go through security and even board flights. >> anything to keep me from getting in lines and time -- time's money. >> reporter: the system takes a picture and compared it against a digital copy of a traveler's passport photo stored in a database of people flying that day. it takes as little as 2 seconds. >> speed wins from a customer viewpoint. >> reporter: this is delta's

fails to face up to empties at a special international hearing in london does the social media giant do with its users data and be forced to comply with privacy will this is inside still. a welcome to the program by major.

privacy on a social media site. documents were taken by british investigators. facebook has been fighting the release of documents in an unrelated legal battle in california. an international hearing begins tomorrow in london. mark zuckerberg was invited but declined to attend.>>> the postal service says it has fixed the glitch that may have exposed personal information a more than 60 million customers. the post office is the problem affected its online portal that allows business -- businesses and advertisers access to real time information. this" allowed anyone with an account to view or modify account information of other users. at this point there is no evidence of criminal activity.>>> we are tracking the weather and looking at rain back in the forecast that starts tomorrow afternoon and continues through the latter part of the week. we are going to be wet with snow in the mountains and some wind. this is exactly what we need. it looks like the weekend is going to be dry over all with some sprinkles. in between now and then it is going to be wet starting tomorrow afternoon. for tomorrow morning there is a slight chance of a shower and then in the afternoon and most of

trying to block the release of these internal documents allegedly approving that mark zuckerberg knew about facebook decisions on data mining and violating user privacy. these were taken from a third- party app developer on a business trip to london. this was part of a broader effort to combat this information on social media. >> we have to do more in terms of cooperation between companies but the devastating effects of what is happening are there. >> the head of the parliament amy mitty said the seizure puts lawmakers and unchartered territory and he has committed to releasing the documents. he tweeted, under uk law and parliamentary privilege we can publish papers if we choose to as part of our inquiry. there is a lot at stake. facebook has lost $100 billion in value as the data scandal in march and experts say if the company is not held accountable this could lead to more violations. >> when you have things like this -- online stores, etc. they tend to work more effectively when they have more user data. what happens is, you end up with one company dominating the field. >> on tuesday british lawmakers will hold an international hearing on how to w

the difference is that these are international companies and we know how difficult it is to police the internet. their argument is that their models are built on privacy it is the people that are responsible. this has real consequences, really stuck in the report that the manchester arena bomber killed 22 people, he bore the ingredients for his bomb on and is on an watch a youtube video before assembling that bomb. —— on amazon. these are real—life consequences of amazon. these are real—life consequences of what is happening on the internet. nick clegg's name has been brought into this, he will start in the new year working for facebook, coming under huge pressure from his old goal of —— government and parliamentary colleagues to do something about this. that story about the manchester bombing picked up about the manchester bombing picked up on the front page of the mirror that talks about the four missed chances to stop the bomber. this was this the report from the intelligence and security committee today that there were various opportunities, including the fact that the bomber actually visited a known militant in prison and he wasn't picked up. yes

specifically the national institute standards of technology international medications and information administration, have begun to develop a privacyemark to help address individuals. at the institution, the director highlighted the industry's purpose for a light touch, regulatory to suggested it is too soon to determine impact of gdp are and that, the california law will be on outcome. at the same time, he also questioned each law sustainability. he said it was too soon, how effective the gdp are is or how california would be in the outcomes. my question is, i'm not asking to get into the mind of the misdirected, but from a standpoint, how does one gauge the impact on products and services that require use of data? >> i was not there for that, but i would say that we are 25 years on from the dawn of the commercial internet. i think we have tried self-regulation, i think companies have first. i do not think it is too soon to consider this question. i think it's high time, if not past time to consider how we protect your and my children and all internet consumers in the future generation. i don't think we can wait another 25 years t

internal document about a strategy... no, because he is it says. it says we are a b—10 organisation, we defend civil rights, privacy, womenwrites.should make a decision on understanding the cost of whether to go ahead and how to go ahead. in that document, we affirmed on page one, we have a policy of defending those with whom we disagree, including white supremacist, including the alt right, and will continue to do so. some of your own members now think that you should back off supporting powerful groups like the nra, but some of your members do not like that. are you going to win that vital is the membership going to win that fight? the membership is behind us, we did not lose any members as a result of the nra fight. we have a lwa ys result of the nra fight. we have always been an organisation that is committed to defending the bill of writes, regardless of who you are. we are determined to do so there has been no imitation whatsoever that we are stopping that fight and we are finding it harder than ever before. david cole, we have to enter there. but thank you for being on hardtalk. thank you. —— the bill of rights. this hell

as a result, he‘s got this cache of documents — internal documents from facebook dating back to sort of 2013, 2014 — potentially discussing data privacy didn‘t know this was going on, we didn‘t know developers were selling the data. well, it‘s possible that they did and it‘s possible that these documents will prove that. we were all hoping today that we‘d see them. we were hoping they‘d be published before the committee meeting. i sat through hours of it thinking they might reveal them. but no. damien collins is the next week, maybe we will get to see them then. so all hope is not lost but it will be very, very interesting having gone to so much trouble to get them, they were sealed by us courts, facebook‘s demanded them there‘s all sorts of power arguments going on about whether we should have them here in the uk. so it certainly suggests there‘s some value. every day this time outside source distils the most important stories from around the world for you. we turn to china next onto stories. let‘s talk about the disappearance of this man. loo gwang is an award—winning chinese photographer. his work documents environmental and societ

the other side is efficacy is hard to measure but privacy equities that are currently harder to measure, the 215 program is an instance where the internallawyers determined the collection was not contrary to statute. there is some debate about that but that was their internal conclusion, you can say it is illegal. when that became public you had a lot, some of the authors of the statute saying that is not what we intended in the general sense the effectiveness of it seems to have been whatever it was, certainly not substantial enough to justify what seemed to be a very intrusive collection on people who did not expect wrongdoing. that kind of equity doesn't seem like something that fits very well into a rigorous model, hard to see what the alternatives for an ig office are short of opining, or taking it out to a broader audience and saying this is something the public or congress needs to evaluate normatively. >> we do have intelligence oversight division, we are the only one with a separate division devoted solely to intelligence oversight. that is appropriate in the work that we oversee. so we look at these issues, there isn't a 1-siz

privacy sort of thing that you think about. but safe and quick. >> adding biometric scr for domestic flights may take longer since there is not a national database as there with international flights in the u.s. customs and border patrol. but make no mistake, biometric screening and boarding flights through biometrics is rapidly changing the way we travel. phil leau, "nightly business report," chicago. tonight.s it for us i'm sue herera. thank you for joining us. we want to remind you this is the time of year your public television station seeks your >> i'm bill griffeth. thank you so much for that report. have a great evening. see you tomorr. >> this is "bbc world news america." funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, and kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. >> this fall, it is a season of oice ofions, from the america's favorite novel. >> it's 100 books we want people to take a look at. we are hoping to get people to fall in love with novels again. >> to the fate of a hero's lovei 'm still here. >> and i.

trying to block the release of seized internal documents, alleging proving ceo mark zuckerberg knew about facebook decisions on data mining and violating user privacy. the documents were taken by parliament from a facebook third party app developer who was on a business trip to london. part of a broader european effort to combat hate speech and misinformation on social media. >> we have to do more in terms of cooperation between countries and with private actors, but the devastating effects of what is happening are there. >> reporter: collins, head of parliamentary committee investigating facebook, says the seizure puts lawmakers in uncharted territory, but hasn't yet committed to releasing the documents, tweeting in part, quote, under uk law and parliamentary privilege, we can publish papers if we choose to as part of our inquiry. facebook has lost more than $100 billion in value since the cambridge analytica data scandal in march. experts say if the company is not held accountable, it could lead to even more violations. >> especially when you have things like social networks, online stores, they tend to work more effectively when they have more u

the next hour, the british parliament has cease seized some internal documents about what facebook's zuckerberg may have known about user privacy. >>> we're talking about the director of a unique film festival kicking off wednesday in san francisco. we're back after the break. ♪ ♪ ♪ connecting people... ...uniting the world. ♪♪ . >>> welcome back. 'tis the season for the retailers. is it expected to be a record shopping day on line. and some of the stores also report the earnings this week. wall street just got disappointing news from general motors. pam cook in the studio with today's dollars and cents. >> reporter: general motors's stock was halted pending the news. and the news is not good. they plan to cut 15,000 jobs and stop production on several low selling cars. product will be halted at some assembly plants in canada, ohio and michigan. we'll keep watching that. all three indexes went higher. tiffany's, dick's and others are trading higher. and now live to the big board. this is the latest on the dow jones industrial average. it is up one and a half percent. the nasdaq and the s&p 500 also up right now. the latest read

. >>> a set of internal dock uume that facebook doesn't want you to see is in the hands of british officials. it shows little regard for human privacy. mark zuckerberg forced a plan to bring his rivals out of business. we have the latest from london. >> reporter: good morning, polo and christine. perhaps the question more titilating of what is in the documents, why doesn't facebook want us to know what is in the documents? this is part of the company suing facebook. normally we would be celebrating facebook not giving people access to user data. in this case, the president of the smaller tech company happened to be in the uk and uk parliament which is aggressive going against facebook trying to find out more about what has happened with brexit on facebook and fake news, they seized those documents. now they are at parliament and they might reveal them, although a judge in the u.s. is trying to stop that. we will listen today as they have this hearing about disinformation and find out if the documents are finally revealed to the public. maybe we can find out why facebook doesn't want us to know. >> samuel, this is coming during a per

privacy in the private sector is increasingly problematic. the recent level of public and congressional attention to the facebook/cambridge analytica issue is illustrative of that feeling w. the international community pushing ever more aggressive laws and the global nature of our digital society, the choice regarding how we address privacy here in the u.s. might soon be out of our hands. companies operating internationally are being forced to adapt to regulations implemented in foreign countries. if we want to play a role in shaping those policies to suit our own notions of privacy, we need to get engaged. this will require the public and private sectors to take a holistic approach to addressing privacy concerns associated with our increasing reliance on digital m technologies. .. i'm not here to advocate in of these are other potential approaches but rather my point is we must have a societal dialogue about how we want to confront the problem. even more broadly we need to be asking ourselves a more fundamental question of what privacy remains to us in the u.s. as it relates to our interactions both with the government and with the private sector. under our current legal framework the sam

now have in their hands a set of internal documents that facebook never wanted the public to see, from a lawsuit accusing facebook of having little regard for user privacyurie seagull interviewed mark zuckerberg last week. this continues a month of pain for facebook, laurie. >> they could include communications between mark zuckerberg, could shed light on what happened with cambridge analytica. actually a california judge ruled that they had to remain sealed. cnn, amongst other news organizations, tried to get them unseal this had summer. they said no go. in uk, you had a note sent to his hotel to try to get those documents. he was able to obtain those documents ahead of a huge hearing this week on disinformation. now it's anyone's game. will they actually put these out there? we're waiting to hear from the california court. facebook has a lot to say about this. it will be interesting to see if they do come out and what they say. >> facebook admitted that they hired that pr form that had gone after george soros. >> yeah. we heard john avalon talk about this friday news dump. there was a thanksgiving eve news dump at facebook. he said yes, he asked them

of these recent data privacy and fake news reports that have been out in light of the cambridge analytica scandal. nine countries were there. it was a focus on facebook's internationale in the uk. a lot of what was questioned was what facebook knew at the time the committee obtained some documents that we believe relate to what mark zuckerberg knew at time a lot of the question related to when those documents will be released take a listen to what richard allen said about that. >> the policy at the moment is once we have confirmed information about any of this kind of attempts at interference, whoever that should be from, once we investigated, once we understand accurately what has occurred, we will publish it. you will know if you've been following the activity of our security team that over the last few months we published several extensive reports describing attempts to create false properties on facebook from both russians and actually more recently from iranian sources. so the united kingdom there was an attempt by a group of iranian operatives to create false information on facebook. we researched that we found the evidence. we published it. >> so richard alle

in my brief remarks i would like to address to international issues as well as the legislative process that you've undertaken on consumer privacy. relating to the cross-border activities congress recognized this and passed the act allowing the ftc to share evidence with and assure the authority on matters involving privacy violations in the data breach. using safe web we have worked to stop the illegal conduct secure millions for consumers and we can obtain criminal convictions with the help of our partners. safe web is a tool that sunsets next year. congress should reauthorize and eliminate the provision. to support american business leadership through three cross-border data transfer programs including the u.s. privacy shield. we look for the privacy shield violation in four ways. first, referrals from the department of commerce. second, priority referrals from the european union we look for violations in every privacy investigation that we conduct as an agency and finally, we conduct proactive monitoring for the participants. we've got nearly 50 actions over the course of their lives and enforcement will remain a priority fo

went to a hotel and the us businessman there, who apparently had a whole load of internal facebook documents to do with privacyf collins threatened to expose the contents of these documents to facebook. however, disappointingly for us, he did not, but there was a little titbit that we got. the contents little titbit that we got. the co nte nts of little titbit that we got. the contents of the document will not expose but at one point they asked richard allen about an internal e—mail sent by a facebook engineer in which he talked about some kind of russian activity within the website and whether or not they should look into it and they asked richard allen, we have seen this e—mail, did you look into it and he said no. i don't know. it is still ongoing. facebook is getting a grilling. mark zuckerberg is not. it is a big thing for that he has not turned up. richard allen is getting it in the neck because of that. we are talking about fashion now. another committee, mps are very busy right now. there is nothing else for them to be discussing. the key question was posed today to primark, represented at this committ

privacy on social media. it is out there. somebody is going to screenshot it and we are going to be talking to the gc. it is a fact pattern exercise. many agencies have internal social media accounts or services. some unsecured systems, some things like aner opportunity to ask a cabinet official questions. do those internal platforms raise the same type of concerns or the same level of concerns as the ones that are outward facing to the public? >> i think they do because the agency leader, especially if it is the head of the agency, is speaking on the agency's behalf and binding it in some way. you need to pay attention to those. i have sat in the room when people having gauged in live logs. i talked to them and they start backing it out before they post. it depends on the issue as to how sensitive it is going to be. you want to pay attention to those engagements and be involved to offer them advice about how they might want to frame that debate or discussion. heard, anything created on those systems will live in perpetuity. the government is great at keeping records. we keep them for a long time. they will have a life after our leaders go on to other jobs. w

international companies is a red line for his government but it remains open on the implementation >>> google and facebook have agreed on a new set of principles it will require internet firms to respect privacy regulations and keep the internet free >> for a long time, 20 years i thought all i had to do was keep it free and open and people would do wonderful things. there's wikipedia, wonderful things th then, in fact, if you talk to people on the street there's been a big change. >> karen is live from lisbon it's interesting some themes coming up is digital taxation, and the other one is actually trust in these tech companies and how peoples expectations of social media has evolved over the times. also over the last year or so. >> they are all major points we are hearing different angles from how academics try to bring you platforms into the mix that might change conditions for consumers, also talking about how business still makes profit. also what regulation is coming into force on that note let me introduce the european justice commissioner good to see you. >> thank you for having me >> one conversation we had at the start of the conference was from the man who created the web in 1989, h

in my brief remarks i'd like to address two international issues as well as the legislative process that you all have undertaken on consumer privacy. while offering incredible opportunities for american consumers, the digital economy poses new challenges for law enforcement particularly relating to cross-border activities. in 2006, congress recognized this and passed the u.s. safe web act allowing the ftc to share evidence with and assist foreign authorities in matters in issues such as privacy violations and data breach. u.s. safe web also confirms our authority to challenge foreign that harm u.s. consumers or involve material conduct in the united states. using state's web, we have worked with foreign authorities to stop illegal conduct and secure millions for consumers and sometimes obtain criminal convictions with the help of our partners. safe web is a vital tool, but it sunsets next year. congress should re-authorize it it and eliminate the sunset provision. next, the ftc works with the deputy of commerce to enable transatlantic data flows and support american business leadership through three, cross-border data transfer pro

privacy shield live up to their promises. and where they don't, we punish them for that. >> watch "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-spa c-span2. >>> now, the center for strategic and international studies examines the limit of free speech on national security. th