at a conference in san francisco, sundar pichai said the plan was in the "very early" stages and mayis in our asia business hub in singapore — she's been following this for us. it is an interesting one, google said we are pulling out, there is too much control and censorship on what we are trying to do but now they are talking about possibly going back. that's right, it's a huge market and the google chief executive sundial pitch i said today that it executive sundial pitch i said today thatitis executive sundial pitch i said today that it is still considering whether to launch a censored version —— sundar pichai. that is one that would serve over 99% of queries. it isa would serve over 99% of queries. it is a very controversial project, hence the toing and froing. at nearly 1% of information, you know, thatis nearly 1% of information, you know, that is being blocked, is a lot, contains an awful lot of information, so this search engine would reportedly block certain websites and search terms related to human rights and religion, which is heavily stifled in china. google stopped offe

sundar pichai hasn't any mail to the company to reassure them google does take these claims seriouslyed her response to this, she said the most thertant point is experience people are having today and how we are so focused on are we providing a safe and inclusive workplace. we are programs and policies around this and we encourage people to speak up. we have taken action and it is clear with the changes we made, people can see it and we have become a great magnet for talent. this is impacting the number of people who want to work with google, but she emphasized this idea of today it is a new regime under sundar try and now -- pichai.ry -- sundar caroline: thank you for bringing us those comments, emily chang. coming up, what is brazil's new president and president trump having common? find out next. this is bloomberg. ♪ joe: bolsonaro is expected to win the presidential election in mexico. a look inside of the office of his son, eduardo, reveals the passion of the family for firearms. let's bring in our sao paulo bureau chief who is in town. i love this. you is his son but maybe look

a national standard for privacy rules of the road is neededand in the coming weeks googe ceo sundar pichaiexpected to take the stand.google discovered and patched up the security breach in march..but didn't reveal it to the public. and that is already a point of contention with congressmembe rs.but some tech experts say.. users shouldn't be alarmed. steven andres/san diego state universitywell there is always going to be an outsized reaction when we feel some of our information has been inappropriately used. but let's not forget we have some control of this. we can put that information there in the first place. it seems that a majority of google plus users didn't fill out these fields they were optional.and even when they did they were sharing them with friends. so when you think about all that happened was their friends went and used a site and information that was known to that friend was transmitted to a third party site. ( marty )that was kron 4s hermela aregawi reporting. google plus will disappear next august... but there's actually a petition to keep it alive that's circulating onli

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the ceo of google is playing defense, sundar pichai, possibly bring search engine back to china, we will get into it. remembering icon, life and legacy of microsoft cofounder paul allen, died yesterday at 65 year's old. all the stories, dagen mcdowell, jon hilsenrath and cfr investment strategists lindsey bell. great to see you this morning. >> good morning. maria: good morning. jon: great to be here. dagen: the laughing stock elizabeth warren, we will be talking about that. maria: even the cherokee community is upset. dagen: connection with cherokee nation or tribal nation even vaguely is inappropriate and wrong. so elizabeth warren, video she rolled out clearly wants to democratic nomination in 2020 and she was spiking the football, guess what, she was in the wrong end zone. maria: yeah, she was. 1 and 1,000 of cherokee, great, great grand mother. [laughter] dagen: range 6 to 10 generations ago, 164th to 1,024th native american. it would put her at 0.09% native american. maria: you know what that tells me, donald trump is running the table, she had to go and she had to get the test don

now they are sending sundar pichai. you would have been a part of that decision.t a mistake? jessica: i wasn't there, so i don't know what the thought process was like, but you kind of answer the question in the sense that they didn't go, and now they have to go anyway. emily: so when you say at times you had to defend the indefensible, what is indefensible? jessica: across the industry, there's a problem we have of -- blackwhite thinking and white thinking, that we lead with data all the time. it lends itself to a moral abstraction is a. you say 2 billion users here it may be a small percentage of that is bad actors. when you look at it like that, this tiny percentage, it's easy to forget that is thousands, or millions. that is electoral interference, myanmar,m suicides, really terrible stuff. but it gets abstracted to a data point where it looks so small that you don't look at it in a human way, and think, how can we solve this in the best way? emily: we are entering an era where tech is really unpopular. facebook just announcing 50 million accounts were hacked.

a national standard for privacy rules of the road is neededand in the coming weeks googe ceo sundar pichai is expected to take the stand.google discovered and patched up the security breach in march..but didn't reveal it to the public. and that is already a point of contention with congressmembe rs.but some tech experts say.. users shouldn't be alarmed. steven andres/san diego state universitywell there is always going to be an outsized reaction when we feel some of our information has been inappropriately used. but let's not forget we have some control of this. we can put that information there in the first place. it seems that a majority of google plus users didn't fill out these fields they were optional.and even when they did they were sharing them with friends. so when you think about all that happened was their friend was their friend was (justine)(justine) (justine) taking a live look outside....(jr stone) meteorologist meteorologist mabrisa rodriguez has our forecast. . . our forecast. . expect an increase in gusty northerly winds on sunday and continue at times through early next

now they are sending sundar pichai. working at google you would have been a part of , that decision. was that a mistake? jessica: i wasn't there, so i don't know what the thought process was, but you kind of answer the question in the sense that they didn't go, and now they have to go anyway. so, you know. emily: so when you say at times you had to defend the indefensible, what is indefensible? jessica: across the industry, there is just a real problem that we have of black and white thinking, that we lead with data all the time. it lends itself to a moral obstructionism. abstractionism. you say 2 billion users here it may be a small percentage of that is bad actors. when you look at it like that, this tiny percentage, it's easy to forget that is thousands, or millions. that is electoral interference, livestream suicides, myanmar, it is really horrific stuff. but it gets abstracted to a data point where it looks so small that you don't look at it in a human way, and think, how can we solve this in the best way? not just

they're ceo, sundar pichai agreed to testify before congress next month. this is a big deal.ally all about censoring conservative opinion as well as privacy. got that. douglas mcmillan with us, a reporter with "the wall street journal" and he has been following this google story for a long, long time. douglas, welcome to the program. >> thanks for having me. stuart: google denied suppressing conservative opinion. do you believe him? >> well this is a issue that goes to the core of google's business. the vast majority of their revenue comes from their search engine. it's a big problem if half or more of the country believes there is suppression of certain idealogical opinions in their search results. they need to maintain fair and unbalanced search results or at least perception of it in order to keep operating that business. the questioning and perception of bias is a big deal that google is starting to react to. you're starting to see this with sundar pichai making a trip to washington to meet with lawmakers. stuart: is there any way a company like google could indeed be abs

a national standard for privacy rules of the road is neededand in the coming weeks googe ceo sundar pichaitand.google discovered and patched up the security breach in march..but didn't reveal it to the public. and that is already a point of contention with congressmembe rs.but some tech experts say.. users shouldn't be alarmed. steven andres/san diego state universitywell there is always going to be an outsized reaction when we feel some of our information has been inappropriately used. but let's not forget we have some control of this. we can put that information there in the first place. it seems that a majority of google plus users didn't fill out these fields they were optional.and even when they did they were sharing them with friends. so when you think about all that happened was their friends went and used a site and information that was known to that friend was transmitted to a third party site. ( robin )( robin ) google plus will disappear next august... but there's actually a petition to keep it alive that's circulating online. it has more than 27-thousand signatures. ( robin ) i

the interesting part, sundar pichai, the ceo, will testify in washington.akes it interesting, the first thing i thought about the story broke, more regulation on google. privacy issue, opening up 500,000 users data privacy, start with that first. >> sure. cheryl: should we be regulating these technology companies at this point? >> i'm a free market guy. i'm not crazy about egg race. we ought to insist on transparency. they should let people know they're doing this sort of thing. if they're doing something shady or unusual, they shouldn't say we just discovered it. we'll be quiet. come out to disclose what happened. people could stay with google, go someplace else, be hoppest what they're doing. they need to be open. cheryl: talk about the executive or designer put out a really nasty tweet. the company, there was kind of a non-response from the company, those are his thoughts. does that really help them, especially this could be energizing republicans, yeah, thanks a lot? >> twitter seems to be the place where people's reputations go to die. cheryl: really.

susan: john, this isn't a good time for google, that sundar pichai went to meet with lawmakers. they're being accused of political bias against conservatives. they're accused of antitrust and mike pence has concerns of them developing a censored search engine for china. >> this is a big issue of google. google plus is a fraction of facebook. if facebook couldn't control the data privacy in the network how will google plus fare? if i was google plus user and my data was compromised and i wasn't notified about it i would be pretty upset. this is the beginning after long battle on regulatory front for both facebook and google. melissa: good point. todd, given the slide of tech shares, what does that mean for regulations and a possible breakup? >> that is really a possibility. i hope it really doesn't come down to it. i would rather see them come to the forefront and not hide things that have happened but when you see that you are actually the customer, right? we are the customer. if you're signing up for them, you're the customer. they have got your information. i don't like the wa

. >> right now, they are admitting that they had a sexual harassment problem, sundar pichai sent out in memo that they fired 48 people over the past 2 years at a variety of management levels for sexual harassment including 13 workers in senior management. follows new york times report that the company report that says the company awarded android creator andy ruben 90 million-dollar exit package after accused of sexual misconduct from a fellow googler. cheryl: hillary vaughn out in los angeles, thank you. lauren: biggest economic report of the week, comes out later this morning, first estimate of gross domestic products, the economy respect today have grown 3.3%, slightly low the other 4.2% that we saw in second quarter, of course, the white house has more optimistic forecast. they see gdp rising at 3 and a half, of course, we will have the report for you once it's released in 3 and a half hours from now. cheryl: with dow down in premarket that could change instantly before we open this morning, back to amazon and google's parent alphabet, both of the stocks lower in premarket right n

bloomberg sources say some google employees will walk off the job, unhappy with sundar pichai's responsexual harassment against employees. they are said to have compiled a list of requests for the company, aimed at helping anyone affected by sexual harassment or power dynamics at work. global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am debra mao. this is bloomberg. let's get to rishaad salamat for a look at markets. the words-- rishaad: from donald trump really affecting sentiment, saying they will make a great deal with china, taken as good news by markets, but is it? he's talking about $500 billion a year. would the chinese do a deal like that? being interpreted positively, so we see a turnaround. 1.3% thusomposite, up far -- 1.75% thus far. 3 percenti 225, 1.1 rise. there has also been talk about china reducing the amount of tax people have to pay on cars, and reducing that tax something like 50%. that is something -- great wall motor racin -- erasing losses from yesterday. honda moving to the upside. eely auto up four point -- 4

one of whom was dismissed, accused of sexual misconduct and given 90 million-dollar package but sundar pichaisaid in memo that the wall street journal obtained that none of those fired in the last 2 years got exit package and he said, we are dead serious about making sure that we provide a safe and inclusive workplace. maria: he didn't say something about the 90 million, he's walking out with $90 million. dagen: beg it is question, 48 people out of 80,000. maria: good point. let's put in context. let's talk about what is going on portfolio manager dan morgan joining us right now, dan, good to see you, thanks very much. we are seeing revenue warnings here and technology obviously was all the way up here and it is coming down last week or so, what's going on? >> well, maria, you know, the overall view of the market in terms of technology obviously is has turned negative, we have to bear in mind stocks have had huge runs over the last 2 or 3 years, it's natural to get pullback. i'm not concerned as the street is in most recent earnings report that have come out. i get it, revenue guidance going