is seeing growth pushing towards thirty percent this year helping the company to gain over rival spotify ten cents twenty five million paid subscribers still like far behind the eighty seven million paying listers that spotify claimed in the earnings report for q three. falling fuel prices are given are expected to give a much needed lift ailing global airlines next year and twenty one thousand according to an industry trade group the international global transport association

spotify's -- spotify's chart. >>> welcome back to mornings on 2, happening today spacex is set to launch a rocket with unique cargo. scientists are taking worms to study muscle loss in a low gravity environment. muscle loss is one of the >>> now, that steph curry is back from his injury, the warriors are rolling. >> steph curry, 2-1, he's hammering it home. >> how do you it? he missed 11 games in november, the warriors lost 6 of those games. the warriors dominated the hawks all night. the warriors had a 17 point lead after if the first quarter, they cruised to a 128- 111 win. a try to cleveland to play the cavaliers tomorrow night. >>> we found out about a major health scare for the warriors, an outside vendor that prepares the warriors food in the practice facility, he came down with a contagious form of meningitis, he went back to the warriors, practices were moved so that facility could be sanitized. that scare happened at the same time the warriors were dealing with injuries and they lost ten of 17 games. >>> music streaming service spotify is taking a look back at 2018 and it looks

could spotify and netflix go in there and read something i sent to a friend in 2013? sarah: that's unclear. the times does not go into that detail and neither does facebook. what it really wants to know is there is a big difference here between allowing you to do that kind of messaging, sending a song to a friend, and be able to read all of your personal messages with people who were not even using spotify. it's not clear where on the spectrum this falls. what matters is that facebook said post 2014, it wound down all those deals to share data with third parties. they said that the congress. this is an example of how that was not quite true. emily: according to the new york times, one of this deals was ongoing with yahoo! as recently as this summer. in the statement, facebook said "to be clear, none of these or features gave apps partnerships information without people's permission, nor did they violate our settlement with the ftc." facebook is saying partners did not use the state to inappropriately, even though there is certainly no way to verify that. do you think

and the new report, claiming facebook gave major companies like netflix and spotify access to your private messages, and that those companies could open your messages, even delete them. >>> nowhere to go. tonight, bob woodruff back with the rohingya, forced to flee the horror in myanmar. and tonight, bob's new discov y discovery. are authorities preparing about island to ship some of the rohingya people to? what he found. >>> and the 5-year-old boy forgotten on the school bus. the bus done for the day, the boy trapped inside. and this evening here, laverne & shirley. tonight, cindy williams on her long-time costar. the stories you likely never heard. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on this wednesday night. we have a lot to get to. and we begin tonight with those two massive storms set to combine as one, just as millions set out for the holidays. dangerous driving and airport delays expected. one storm from the west with this tornado, just confirmed a short time ago as an ef-2 tornado. massive damage in this neighborhood outside seattle. the other storm tonight, fr

spots to >> katie: spotify is also free. pandora. you are using, voluntarily giving away your information. >> david: it's valuable. don't give it away. >> kennedy: is also a generational thing. younger people don't believe in this thing called privacy. they think it's a myth. >> harris: it sounds like facebook is getting into that territory that my relatives called -- seriously. they are taking stuff. >> kennedy: they are walking up to the creepy line. >> david: [laughs] >> harris: let's move on with my metaphor. that's why i like kennedy, she understands. the clock is ticking for lawmakers to make a deal to prevent the shutdown. it looks like president trump is backing off the demand for $5 million for the wall system. at least for now. whether he will sign this new deal, and what the wall site will look like in 2019. ♪ >> it safe to say that the democrats have now boiled down immigration reform, which is a complex and important issue, much of wall. ♪ ♪ spread a little love today ♪ spread a little love my-y way ♪ ♪ spread a little s

>>> a bombshell report said facebook let spotify and netflix od rng.o it is 5:00 a.m. on this 1. in j a moment, including facebook's response. >> first, you are never more than 7 minutes away from the accuweather forecast. here's meteorologist mike nicco >> good morning, everybody. visibility layer in the entire north bay. hard to get away from the fog this morning. fairfield, napa, petaluma, santa rosa, all our reporting stations foggy. some of the fog from the altamont pass leaking into livermore. now you're down to two miles. fog around half moon bay. here's the way the day breaks down. we're milder this morning. mid-40s to low 50s. flirting with 60 at noon. low to mid-60s at 4:00 with increasing sunshine. and 50 to 55 degrees at 7:00. hope you enjoy the mild weather. how about the commute? here's alexis. >>> overall, that is pretty mild so far this morning as well. we are looking live at the bay bridge commute. mht the stth was well. nine minutes from the toll plaza into the city. a quick checktransit. issue if you typicferry from so to the ferry building. 7:10, 7:40 on that

spotify said we have for evidence that spotify accessed any private information.ey didn't seem to know they had the broad power that they had. >> if those statements are true, hallie, is facebook was turning on the hose for the data and didn't always now where it was going. we went to them with different examples, and they said, they weren't sure if that data channel was open so you have to ask, if this is a company that is going to protect your information and knows what it's doing, how can they be so off the game on this stuff? >> it puts the onus on all of us. anybody who uses instagram or facebook, and that's the point that carey swisher is making, writing for now it's not clear what we can do except take control of our own individual news consumption. take the extra second to fact check, even if it confirms your worst impulses about something you hate. so in other words, see something, say nothing? we do have to police ourselves here, right? >> even the story makes the point that even though these people who took the extra step, they were still sort of used a

the alarming new report they gave companies like spotify, netflix and apple access to your private messages posted. >>> surfers braving the huge surf and an advisory this morning. >>> fog moved in again overnight. it is what many of you will see as the next storm moves in. good morning. it is wednesday, december 19th. >>> let's take a look at the fog. you are seeing it is very thick all along interstate 80 in sacramento, quarter mile to a mile in fairfield. you break off into 680, 780. it lets up as you cross the delta into contra costa county. two miles visibility napa to a quarter mile in novato. livermore, down to a couple of hundred feet in the altamont pass. look at these temperatures. mid to upper 40s. even low 50s at 7:00. nearing 60 at noon. increasing sunshine. low to mid-60s by 4:00. let's find out more about the commute. hi, alexis. >>> good morning. i want to show you the walnut creek camera. quite heavy 680 around north main. they were saying they were stopped in the slow lane. no flashing lights yet. chp is on the way to assist. filling in westbound 80, highway 4 to the maze.

not only is the rapper spotify's most- streamed artist of 2018 ...e is also the most- streamed artist of all time! and the accolades do not stop there-- drake's album "scorpion," which released in june, is the most- streamed album of the year-- and the most- streamed song? "god's plan" by drake. as for spotify's most- streamed female artist of 2018 -- that recognition goes to ariana grande. (ken) snowball fights are an age-old tradition for children.. but one town in colorado has had a long- standing ban on them. now - a local 9-year-old boy has gotten involved and changed things.. dane best - who lives in severance colorado - politely argued before the town boardthat it was an outdated law.. he told them he thinks children should be able to throw snowballs without getting into trouble. board members asked him lots of questions about things like safety.. but his three-minute presentation did the trick --- and the ban has been lifted. dane was even allowed to throw the officialfirst legal snowball. (pam) that wraps that wraps up kron 4 news at 8.(ken)

for example, facebook gave spotify and netflix the ability to read and write.acebook helped apple hide signs wereigns that it's devices asking users for data. "the new york times" got access to enable article sharing. in all, 150 companies had access to more data than facebook this close, impacting hundreds of millions of users every month, and this comes as it faces a fresh legal challenge by the d.c. tourney a general over the cambridge analytica general over the cambridge analytica scandal. to discuss the latest, we talked to rich greenfield who has a buy rating. and sarah frier. facebook gave spotify and netflix the ability to read and write and delete my personal messages? what does that mean? >> what facebook is trying to allow you to do is to use facebook in a way that is better integrated with those apps. so you could send a song to a friend, a show to a friend, and you would not have to go straight to facebook and copy and paste. it is integrated. you need to have the right permissions. if you delete a message, it would delete it in your facebook chat

they are claiming that the companies who did this, spotify in particular, netflix, that users for spotify had consented to spotify entering that agreement. >> it is even hard to talk about it. >> i know. >> the problem here and the reason the stock got absolutely hammered today, it looks like another violation of the 2011 consent decree. and there are people being quoted who are really knowledgeable about how well this works which we really aren't who say yes it was another violation. i think people are beginning to think at some point, if not in the u.s., in the eu, they are going to get tagged with a monster fine for all these violations. how many times this year has facebook come out and apologized and said we're going to do better and yet these things keep happening, even in this year some of these violations were taking place? that's not acceptable. >> i hate being pushed into a corner to being the facebook defender. it always seems to happen to me. with a dual class structure, i would call it scandalous david except you for for a company and so do i. people don't mind until things g

you could recommend a song through spotify or a movie to a friend through netflix. in order to make it happen, the services had to access your messages. facebook says it had user permission. but at this point, it is hard to sort out the shocking controversieses facebook managed to get itself embroiled in, from a sort of whoops, users got confused about controversies. last week, facebook said it accidentally allowed third parties to see your private photos. yesterday, the senate intelligence committee said russians used facebook to convince african-americans not to vote. this morning, the controversy over private messages. that's friday through wednesday. >> yes. >> of facebook. i think you saw a graphic behind me, it says facebook controversy, we have like ten of those. we picked the one we want to use today because we'll use it again tomorrow. >> seems like this happens day after day. >> pretty constant now, a big pattern there. thank you, mike -- mike? scott, sorry. >> i'm unfriending her. >> sorry. okay. i'm sorry. i have a headache right now. >>> elon musk is un

although only 4% of them are paying subscribers for spotify, it's 45%.st streaming music. what i thought was most exciting when they rang the bell for the opening, there's a social aspect to this, videos, karaoke, makes it easy for munitions to connect with fans. i even got in on the action and met up with one of the most popular music characters i palled around with wi singh, who loves stocks mostly, though, what tencent music has a stacale it's one of the largest digital media operators in the people's republic the result is a power house that now trades under the tencent music label. they have an enormous treasure trove of data that they can figure out what you want to listen to, like spotify. piracy is so rampant in music, this is about the only way people are going to pay for music. there's one more thing that sets this business model apart from western peers. micropayments. you hear about that when it comes to video games in this country, but micropayments are key to tencent media they have something like this in america, but in china, the economy

have ended, but certainly was available at some point. >> reporter: the "times" report says that spotifynd netflix were allowed to read facebook user's private messages, while amazon was able to obtain user's names and contact info, and microsoft's bing was able to see the names of virtually all facebook users' friends without consent. "the economist" has called consumer data "the world's most valuable resource." and, in 2018 alone, american companies are expected to spend riose to $20 billion harvesting it-- all to better target advertising. some people have called consumer data the oil of the 21st century. >> it is the oil of the 21st century, and we are now starting to have wars over it. >> reporter: and yet, we have spotify and netflix saying they never asked for and didn't use the access facebook granted them. microsoft said it respected user preferences. ytd amazon, for its part, says everything it did was within its privacy policy. ol for facebook, jeff, it says partners do not get to ignore its users' privacy settings, and and wrong to suggest they do. >> glor: wars over the oil

much of your information the social network is making available to the likes of google apple and spotify and the cultural appropriation is that. disney's trademark all the phrase. that. connects us throughout the say the hashtag we're going to be using is aging. with the new live on air and streaming online through you tube facebook live in it al jazeera dot com and every time it seems democratic republic of congo is on the path to its presidential election there's another hack up last week it was a fire that destroyed voting machines now the opposition rallies ahead of sunday's election which should have been beginning right about now have actually been suspended by the governor of can. security reasons for his to see. he said in a statement of for his have information that court extremists are preparing a confrontation in. covering events talk us through what's happened today and why. and just look. at it by the local authorities the. people. there will not. say that they're going to wait for the presidential candidate. and . now we have been told. to make us wait. and it by huge and m

facebook gave spotify the ability to read and write.acebook helped apple hide signs that it was asking users for data. "the new york times" got access to enable article sharing. in all, 150 companies had access to more data than facebook disclosed, impacting users. this comes as it faces a fresh legal challenge over the cambridge analytica scandal. to discuss the latest, we talked to rich greenfield who has a buy rating. facebook gave spotify and netflix the ability to read and write my personal messages? what does that mean? >> what facebook is trying to allow you to do is to use facebook in a way that is better integrated with those apps. you can send a show to a friend and you do not have to copy and paste. it is integrated. you need to have the permissions, if you delete a message, it would delete it in your chat history. emily: could spotify go in there and read something i sent to a friend in 2013? >> that is unclear. what i want to know is, there is a big difference between allowing you to do that kind of messaging and being able

ever, as if like spotify's been around for decades. ♪ now my bedsheets smell like you ♪ >> spotify isold. sheeran's closest competitor is drake, who was recently announced to be the most listened to artist of this year. ♪ i'm in love with your body. >> yeah, i can see that. >>> and talk about a father's love for his daughter. >> chrissy teigen's dad just raised the bar, getting a tattoo of his daughter's face in honor ever her 33rd birthday. >> the only weird thing is it was on his butt. no, i'm kidding. tee chrissy teigen turned 33 back on november 30th and there it is, the arm tattoo. >> a little weird. ee chrissy tek on november 30th and there it is, the arm tattoo. >> a little weird. chrissy teig on november 30th and there it is, the arm tattoo. >> a little weird. chrissy teig on november 30th and there it is, the arm tattoo. >> a little weird. chrissy teigen november 30th and there it is, the arm tattoo. >> a little weird. know what turns me on? my better half, hors d oeuvres and bubbly. and when i really want to take it up a notch we use k-y yours & mine. tingling for me, warmin

followed up export on spotify. tronic of the superheroes of german indie rock by firearms critics and fellow musicians alike now their peers have shared with us some of their favorite things about twenty five years of history. playing. one coming the first time i heard it i thought the name talk with sean it just sounded great kind of techno like king of. second hand and adidas track suit jackets they were just awful if i mean we all bought these damn jackets and the corduroy pants and the worn out adidas sneakers only p.e. teachers where yuck. but i like them right away because they had such outrageous song titles. and so i feel good and. will for sure reason must never prevail i really like that i thought it was great. but for the most was. his shots i appreciate their music a lot and i'm always very very curious about their lyrics and i go to him and especially the smart and exciting stories they tell. me she. said. this. is a. momentous and you can tell those are people who just do their own thing you know i gu

followed up export on spotify. charms and their crew spend up to one hundred days a year on the road to make twenty eight teams they toured north america with their album blossom we caught up with the band and the friends in charleston. to move. to a. to. milky chance live in charleston south carolina in the fall of twenty eighteen the election of pope duo went on their second north america tour but it can still get overwhelming at times. where ever we play on the walls backstage there are posters or signatures of bands who played there before. from all this to jimi hendrix. to the foo fighters lady gaga they all had small beginnings too i also played in places like this. it's really cool to tread in their footsteps. to some listen from then from the song it was on most of them. despite their busy schedules they managed to find the time for some sightseeing they've been on the road all year starting out in europe then canada and now the u.s. . yes. and then it's good to be able to see the wont to come in contact wi

so spotify has it.t nobody has -- anybody ever asked her if she wanted spotify to have her stuff. >> okay. i'm alaska because i have a mean question. i want to understand why facebook gets away with it? i have a theory it's people in congress have no idea what you just said. >> there are people in congress that know it very well as on any substantive issue. >> who? >> senator thune on the republican side, senator burr, senator warn were. they all have proposals, but the clout that empowers silicon valley is significant, even now, for a very long time, the democrats thought silicon valley were their friends and didn't want to hijack them. republicans said they're a growing business, i don't want to get in the way of that. everybody steers clear. there are no rules around any of this. the only rule is you can do what you want, but you can't lie about it. they've even arguably broken that rule. >> i think the is as serious anz steroids in sports and a 9/11 attack. i don't understand why there is a commissi

more than ten million record sales seventy nine over a billion streams on spotify felix yan is a top class d.j. this is how we shot to fame. felix yen certainly knows how to get the crowd going only in his mid twenty's is one of germany's most successful musicians. to hear about him i've always had a vision in mind it was my dream to become a famous d.j. and i knew that the only way to achieve that was by producing my own tracks not just playing other people's. but if you. don't have felix has been producing tracks for some time such as the single cool still he didn't release his long awaited album until early twenty eight thousand a whole three years after his debut hit. all so it took me so long because i needed to grow into the role of a producer who's capable of producing an entire album you know i just started making music on my laptop and all of a sudden i was making hits that really raised the bar and made for pretty high expectations i needed time to find my own sound too. and that sound is called tropical house his first album is a collection of twenty five tracks some previ

more than ten million record sales seventy nine platinums and over a billion streams on spotify felix yan is a top class d.j. this is how we shot to fame. fix again certainly knows how to get the crowd going only in his mid twenty's he's one of germany's most successful musicians. but how about him i've always had a vision in mind it was my dream to become a famous d.j. and i knew that the only way to achieve that was by producing my own tracks not just playing other people's. but if you. get me. in hamburg felix has been producing trucks for some time such as the single cool still he didn't release his long awaited album until early twenty eight a whole three years after his debut hit. it took me so long because i needed to grow into the role of a producer who's capable of producing an entire album you know i just started making music on my laptop and all of a sudden i was making hits that really raised the bar and made for pretty high expectations i needed time to find my own sound too. and that sound is called tropical house his first album is a collection of twenty five tracks som

million record sales seventy nine and over a billion streams on spotify felix yan is a top class d.j. this is how we shot to fame. certainly knows how to get the crowd going only in his mid twenty's he's one of germany's most successful musicians. i've always had a vision in mind it was my dream to become a famous d.j. and i knew that the only way to achieve that was by producing my own tracks not just playing other people. but. in hamburg félix has been producing tracks for some time such as the single cool still he didn't release his long awaited album until early twenty. three years after his debut hit. it took me so long because i needed to grow into the role of a producer who's capable of producing an entire album you know i just started making music on my laptop and all of a sudden i was making hits that really raised the bar and made for pretty high expectations i needed time to find my own sound too. and that sound is called tropical house his first. album is a collection of twenty five tracks some previously released singles as well as new songs created between his d.j. sets

billion streams on spotify. this is how we shot to fame. certainly knows how to get the crowd. is one of germany's most successful musicians . i've always had a vision in mind it was my dream to become a famous d.j. and i knew that the only way to achieve that was by producing my own tracks not just playing other people's. but. in hamburg félix has been producing tracks for some time such as the single cool still he didn't release his long awaited album until early twenty. three years after his debut hit. and that sound it's called. his first album is a collection of twenty five tracks some previously released new songs created between his d.j. sets all over the world on planes and taxis and recording studios in london. and copenhagen he wanted an album with a harmonious concept. when it comes to making a single singers the record company management team you get tons of feedback and everyone's thinking ok which single could be released next which is the right song but with an album i can just do what i like most. games career began with classical music he learned to play violin

every week pop expo publishes a new playlist on spotify with twenty songs full made in gemini. or you'll also find chart toppers new release is classic hits. followed up export on spotify. tronic a super heroes of german indie rock by fans critics out. final musicians are like now their peers have shared with us some of their favorite things about took twenty five he's a pastry. one putting the first time i heard it i thought the name taco tronic just sounded great and kind of technical like. he found second hand and indeed his track suit jackets they were just awful if i mean we all bought these damn jackets and the corduroy pants and the worn out adidas sneakers only p.e. teachers where yuck. but i liked them right away because they had such outrageous song titles. and so i for one wouldn't. reason must never prevail i really liked that i thought it was great. for them which was. the shits i appreciate their music a lot and i'm always very very curious about their lyrics and i get to him and especially the smart and exciting stories they tell. and respond so i can machine. th

we're talking about companies like microsoft, netflix, spotify, a number of others, yahoo.is news, on the same day that the dc attorney general filed a lawsuit against facebook over the sharing of users personal information in relation to cambridge analytica during the 2016 election. thank you so much for being here. your district largely encompasses silicon valley and with that in mind, what's your reaction to this story? >> i was very disappointed and concerned. on the face of it, it looks like facebook has violated the ftc consent agree basically providing information to third parties where third parties are reading personal information. this is just, frankly, appalling. it's why we need an internet bill of rights. they say before you can give information to a third party, you have to explicitly ask for a person's consent. that wasn't done and people should have the right to know what happened to their data. that wasn't done. >> i want to talk about your internet bill of rights because that really is sort of your pet project, but the argument that facebook is using here

there's no evidence that spotify ever accessed these facebook messages amazon responding that it usesmation only in accordance with its privacy policy. microsoft saying in its engagement with facebook, it respected user preferences of course this is just the latest report, sowing concern about facebook's privacy protections. back over to you >> thank you, julia. joining us right now to continue this conversation at post 9, former huffington post ceo eric hippo. also former apple chief evangelicalist, guy kawasaki good morning to you. eric, you're sitting right across from us here. you hear the news, you read the headlines, you read the reaction from facebook. who do you believe >> i'm not sure. the verdict is out that facebook is not to be trusted with your data the counter parties who said they had access -- some of them were surprised that they had access, saying that they really never used it, at first you have to believe them until it's proven that they actually used the data for something else. >> but is the issue they didn't use it or they gave them access to, meaning they could

spotify and netflix told the "new york times" they were unaware of the access facebook granted them.acebook has been embroiled in a series of scandals this year. coming up in ten minutes, we'll check in with scott mcgrew. we'll join us with insight into the company's rocky recent past. >> 5:04. >>> the mother from yemen who fought president trump's travel ban is expected to arrive in the bay area tonight to say good-bye to her terminally ill son. "today in the bay's" bob redell live in oakland, where the boy is being treated and sadly, might only have days to live. bob? >> reporter: marcus, the mother's husband tells us that his wife has been crying in happiness to be able to finally visit her boy, who as you mentioned is sadly dying from a terminal brain condition. the boy's name is abdullah hassan. he's 2 years old. he's clinging to life on a ventila ventilator at ucsf benioff hospital. his dad has been trying to convince the u.s. state department to grant his wife a visa to visit, about you she's from the country of yemen, one of seven countries under president trump's travel ban.

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facebook reportedly gave netflix and spotify the ability to read user private messages as part of the deal. >> in a statement, facebook said its partners don't get to ignore people's privacy is settings and it is winding down integration partnerships built to give people act segs to the site. >>> google chrome's new effort to fight back button hijacking. >> it has happened to all of us. you hit the back button on a site, only to be taken to an ad. chrome is working on a way to prevent that from happening in the future. >> lg will begin selling a rollable tv yesterday. >> it rolled into a basement. no word yet on a price. >> those ro your "techbytes". >> i like that tv. >> that is cooler than i thought it would be. >> yeah. a lot more on the facebook story coming up in a few minutes at 5:00 a.m. >>> $9 worth of chicken wings lands a driver with a traffic ticket. it is not for eating them behind the wheel. ♪ >>> and a band that broke barriers in san francisco has a new honor this morning. >>> plus, a local restaurant owner joins forces with you can check off your to-do list and wish lis

spotify moved to market street to a new office near montgomery and pine. some spotify workers say there were concerns of crime and homelessness and drug dealing near the old offices. >>> it is 6:08. two big fires around the country with one in los angeles and another in philadelphia. this one in adelphia, 200 firefighters are trying to get control of this fire. >>> snow and icy weather causing travel delays this morning and the impact the snowstorm could have on travel all week long. >>> patience pays off as a dog waits for the family to come back from the camp fire. ♪ ♪ ♪ connecting people... ...uniting the world. ♪♪ i am a techie dad.n. i believe the best technology should feel effortless. like magic. at comcast, it's my job to develop, apps and tools that simplify your experience. my name is mike, i'm in product development at comcast. we're working to make things simple, easy and awesome. >>> welcome back. it is 6:11. the huge fire alarm permit fire in philadelphia we have been telling about is under control. 200 firefighters had been there since it st

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spotify says it never accessed private messages. facebook, under fire over privacy and access to users' data for years. founder mark zuckerberg apologizing in "the new yorker" in 2009 for college text messages, calling people dumb, who trusted him with their information. just this year, mea copas to congress for allowing a political consulting firm to get users' data without their permission. >> that was a big mistake, and it was my mistake. and i'm sorry. >> reporter: this time "sorry" may not be enough. ann thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> there is breaking news tonight from illinois. a scathing report from the state's attorney general accusing the catholic church of withholding the names of at least 500 priests and clergy members credibly accused of sexual abuse. the report says the state's six diocese have done a terribly inadequate job of investigating allegations and notifying state welfare workers. >>> tonight an nbc investigation into a surgical robot called the da vinci, the only one of its kind. last year doctors in every

netflix or spotify. i don't ever buy anything. no, i don't buy any. i download everything.movies but i'm not bothered about having them on dvd all the time and stuff like that. so it won't be that bad for me, to be honest. hmv‘s current owners bought it out of administration five years ago. but today they said an extremely weak christmas and a poor outlook for music and dvd sales next year meant they couldn't go on trading. when it comes to physical sales, hmv is still a major force, with around a third of all music sales in the uk and about a quarter of the dvd and blu—ray market. but both are in decline and a big fall in recent months in sales of dvds seems to have pushed the firm over the edge. don't you get sick of it all? the rise of streaming services such as netflix and spotify means millions no longer choose to own dvds or cds, making the environment for a high street entertainment retailer ever harder. i don't think that's the whole story. i mean, obviously hmv have seen a change in terms of sales as people move to digital access models. but actually, i think what

big companies, netflix, spotify.ead messages that you thought were just private. >> they lied to you. they said they were private. "new york times" deputy investigations editor helped break the story. he joins us now. the thing that stood out is the idea of allowing the companies to read your private messages. what is the justification for that? is there any precedent for this? >> it's a great question. the fact is that facebook allowed these keemp companies t access for integration that spotify and netflix were using to send recommendations. that might be the case, but what actually we see in the documents is that facebook gave them access to do a lot more than just that. so if they wanted to just send things through facebook messenger, there were ways they could do that without having this kind of very deep invasive access. >> there are questions and you bring them up in your reporting which is incredibly important. it's netflix, spotify, amazon being permitted to see this stuff. they have been doing this. facebook

now, if you're using facebook messenger on spotify, of course spotify would have access to your messages. facebook executives have been called before lawmakers, both here and in europe, over the course of 2018. the biggest facebook crisis this year was cambridge analytica scandal. this morning nbc news is reporting the attorney general of the district of columbia that's washington, d.c. has filed a civil suit against facebook for that violation. facebook has run into serious trust issues both with government and with its users laura. >> thank you so much scott, for the update there. >>> we just learned that the mother from yemen who fought president trump's travel ban and received a visa waiver yesterday from the state department now her trip is delayed. she might arrive around midnight. we've been telling you about her family saga over the last few days. she has come to say goodbye, sadly, to her terminally ill son at oakland hospital. her husband tells us she's crying tears of joy to see the child before he dies. >> i'm glad my wife got her visa. >> 2-year-old abdullah hasan has a brai

let's take a look at spotify share price. peers, evert these since spotify went ipo in april, it is now underwater by under 3%. what does tencent music have that spotify doesn't that it think they could actually survive in this kind of environment? -- ilawsuit immense and mentioned, and exited -- and executive is suing the company for fraud because he was trying to sell his equity stake of $1.2 billion. that's how much of the be worth right now. another one is market sentiment. hop into the bloomberg sentiment -- the bloomberg for this. we know how things are going with stocks. in the msci, over 50% of stocks are down 20% or more. that means that is in a bear market there. there's one reason for optimism. tencent music is already profitable. net income of $400 million in the first nine months of this year. a lot is riding on this. tencent has that 60% stake. spotify, the second-largest holder of tencent music with about 9%. shery: thank you so much. coming up, markets have been on a wild ride this year. it's probably not goin