you are talking about whatsapp. it's been quite a puzzle for people in brazil who use this popular messaging app. it was taken off-line and then reactivated all in the space of 24 hours. various judges involved. tell us more. ,ate: a judge ordered whatsapp which is a free, internet-based ed inging app, be block brazil for two days. local media was reporting that the injunction stems from a criminal court case, in which the defense had been allegedly using whatsapp? to organize their crimes. than 12 hours after that ban took effect, another judge overturned it, saying that millions of people should not pay the price for the company's inertia. reporter: message received. whinjunction blocking atsapp? in the country was overturned. 90% of brazil's internet users -- the blockage caused outrage. >> everyone has whatsapp? groups with relative, friends. >> we use whatsapp? for workgroups. it is a tool we got used to. reporter: but the app is less profit of -- less popular with brazil' telecoms industry. the company failed

officials say the killers use whatsapp and telegram.can see because of the encryption, they may never know what was in the messages. joining me right now to talk more about this is cnn money tech correspondent. are the terrorists doing something special? their messages are encrypted? or is this a place, a location, an app that already encrypts everything for them? >> yeah, the bottom line, encryption is easier than ever. whatsapp has encryption baked in. your communications are protected. telegram, they also spoke about, also very similar. you can have private chats, fred, and the chats are encrypted, making it very difficult for anyone to see what's happening. and i'll say this. encryption has been around for a long time. it's becoming mainstream so people like you and me can use it easily on apps like telegram and apps like whatsapp. >> what about this telegram? >> telegram's an interesting one. it was launched in 2013 by a guy who is dubbed the mark zuckerberg of russia. and he fled russia because he refused to hand over data to the

will whatsapp be part of the internet.org suite as well?k: it is going to be different on a country-by-country basis. right? so just like, you know, the u.s. has 911 that has certain things in it, in different countries, most of them have an equivalent of 911 that have different things. so for some, it is mostly just about health and crime. some have more things in it than the u.s. does. and internet.org is kind of going to be like that, too. in each country, the governments and local operators are going to need to figure out what services they want to include. emily: google has android. mark: mm-hmm. emily: how do you overcome not having the hardware? not having android? mark: our strategy is just to build things that people really want to use. right? and, you know, facebook is the most-used app. whatsapp and messenger and instagram are some of the next in instagram are some of the next most-used apps that are out there. so, at some level i think that as long as we are building services that people really want to use and that help people's

whatsapp pavel: i can elaborate on that. mike: sure., and we were supposed to have flying cars and that by now. mike: jet packs. pavel: it is over. you cannot send documents with big media. , with your communication, so i am not sure i was a big fan of whatsapp. mentioned privacy, and you made a big claim about telegrams, their ability to be encrypted. amean, that is obviously laudable claim, especially with , butoing on in the world it a sense, where is the business proposition in encryption? pavel: i had a friend. back when i was living in russia, i had a friend, and she was talking about the whatsapp messages in the police department, so they lifted her , and she told me that they tried to use it to blackmail her, so privacy is not just for businesses. ,hich people can be blackmailed and their information is more valuable. mike: so you're saying that you retain users because they trust you. pavel: that is just one of the things that makes the telegrams different. mike: describe that to us and how that might become such a significant

about half billion people use whatsapp. millions of brazilians moved instantly over to another app called telegram. they're not using yahoo! text either. >>> martin shkreli arrested. it dates back to old accusations. he is, well, thinking when he was a hedge fund manager he was buying up drug companies in a previous case. the feds say he bought a drug company and then according to those accusation s siphoned off to pay for debt at his hedge fund. you probably got his attention, he got your attention when he bought the drug company touring pharmaceuticals. raised the price of one of the pills by hundreds of dollars. daraprim used by cancer patients and pregnant women. it could be deadly to unborn. that's why pregnant women shouldn't come contact with the cat's litter box. we'll follow this arrest and bring you the latest. he recently bought a bay area company, as well. we're on top of this, as is cnbc. >> very interesting. thanks a lot. >>> this is funny to see. the president is running wild. >> going to teach us about the g

among them, whatsapp and telegram, both which use technology that protects the privacy of their users and is difficult to decrypt. investigators were able to recover some unencrypted communications on at least one cell phone found near the site of the attacks. the attackers also reportedly used other methods to cover their tracks, including changing cell phone sim cards to evade surveillance. russian president vladimir putin lashing out this noon, calling the downing of this russian war plane last month an enemy act. turkish f-16' s shot down the jetliner near the turkish-syrian border, saying it was over turkish airspace and ignored warnings to move. putin claims turkey had other options and calls it a stab in the back on the part of the turkish government. he also rejected international efforts to oust syrian president bashar al-assad, who he has long supported. the man dubbed the most hated drug company ceo for significantly raising prices on medication is under arrest, accused of securities and wire fraud. the charges relate to martin shkreli' s former job as a hedge fund manager,

it is estimated 90% of mobile users use whatsapp. outage,irst hour of the 1.5 million brazilians had signed up to a rival service. people are feeling cut off. >> thank you very much for a look at the day's business news. time now for the press review. it is time to take a look at what is grabbing headlines in the weekly news magazines. i am joined by florence villeminot. we are going to go over ongoing reaction of the e.u. vote that's a place in france per flo: quite a nailbiting end. in the end, the national party did not read -- did not win a single region. it was a one-shot for mainstream political parties, but the key question is, will this change anything? there is definitely a call for change in the press. one group is calling for a novelty in french politics, perhaps a facelift of french politics are today you can at least he see -- at least see a little check popping out of the french flag. they expressed their rejection of france's mainstream political party. it encourages french politicians to answer this desire for change

what if the government would just ban, you know, whatsapp and telegram?people to encrypt messages, that would be illegal. >> that's obviously the crux of the problem, right? at what point do we throw out the constitution and the right to privacy in favor of people's safety? so, that's going to be the age-old question and there's lots of debates around that, of course. once again, if the government decided to start banning applications, there's enough smart people in the world that don't work for the government that i believe, you know, other ways would be found around that type of thing and once again, i feel like we should be focusing our efforts elsewhere rather than, you know, trying to -- trying to weaken the security of the products the american people are using. because that's really what the fbi is asking. because if twitter were to create a back door in their direct messaging system at the behest of the united states, what's to say other people can't find a back door into that? so what we're doing is weakening the security we're already using for

whatsapp is the most popular messaging app in the world a but telegram has been growing quickly.hat tough is owned by facebook and baby taking a page from the social network's playbook. they blocked access to another app. creating a test for women struggling with infertility. that is next. plus history in the making out of washington this week. scientists debate the ethics of gene editing. ♪ emily: today in bwest biotech a historic summit is underway in washington. hundreds of scientists, policy makers, and the president heinz advisor are discussing the use of a new technique called crisper. it is a form of gene editing that allows changing the dna of living cells. it could one day be used to avoid genetic conditions like muscular dystrophy. but some fear can also be used for aesthetic or competitive enhancement. some have been an aggressive in this research but many organizations are calling timeout on any human experiments. this could result in new calls for restraint in this explosive area of research. staying with biotech in the u.s. alone nearly 7 million women struggle to g

likehese rogue deals facebook buying whatsapp.n they went quiet for a long time, and nurses feeling of the industry that there is some pent-up demand for companies, particularly the slower growing comedies like ibm, cisco, oracle, that need to grow, there is a feeling like they need to buy their way into growth, and year for that. 2015 was the year for consolidation in the semiconductor business. like this iseling not quite done yet. we should expect more consolidation in that industry. consolidationbout and 2016 fall on those old guard tech companies. hp, oracle. there is a feeling that there is still too many of those companies that are overlapping in information technology. legacyhey are all businesses, and they are declining. >> they are declining. maybe there is one or more of those other kinds of old i.t. card consolidation deals left to be done. betty: the favorite subject in tech is the unicorns. the committees that are about $1 billion in valuation. taken to the glue factory? >> a painful metaphor in this debate. they are

it's also used by whatsapp. >> it's encrypted from their device to the recipient's device.etween can see what they're saying. >> it's making it easier than ever to protect your self, and harder for law enforcement to crack down, spurring conversations like these. >> all of our papers, all of our information will have strong encryption. that will have profound consequences for law enforcement. >> where this is headed is some kind of stockpile of encryption keys. i think this proposal is a big time loser. >> i lean further in the direction of strong encryption than some do. but i am saympathetic to law enforcement because i know the pressure they're under to keep us safe. >> this man was the deputy director of the nsa. >> encryption is one of many ways that an adversary, a rogue nation, a terrorist, to hide their activities. >> some in washington want the ability to access encrypted conversations if there's reason to think there's a threat. think of it as asking for a key to a locked door. >> the question is, do we then try to provide some exceptional access to technologies o

brazil announced that it is shutting down the facebook owned messaging app "whatsapp" case. mark zuckerberg called it a sad it was so sad in brazil today that they only parted in the streets for half the day. >> steve: oh. [ cheers ] [ clapping ] >> steve: that's it. [ laughter ] yeah. >> jimmy: speaking of facebook, i saw that it launched its year in review feature. okay. which brings up some of your top facebook photos from the past year. that's right. facebook's year in review, which should be a huge name, parade of regrets. [ laughter ] >> steve: oh. >> jimmy: when you go, yeah, yeah, yeah. skip over that. uh, yeah, uh. and youtube just released its annual end of the year compilation of viral hits. it's pretty fun to watch but, of course, you probably have seen them all before, which is why we decided to put together the best of this year's anti-viral hits. [ laughter ] these are videos from this year that have less than ten views. [ laughter ] now, they are real. they are real. and it probably -- this moment won't exist again ever again because someone's gonna click and

. >>> al ritmo que vamos, vamos tener que hacerlo con whatsapp. >>> asÍ es.ratito seguimos otra transformaciÓn, pasado la casa con ustedes. >>> gracias roco. >>> atentos para ver cÓmo queda la transformaciÓn de la amiga mÍa que sÉ va va a quedar hermosa. >>> para maÑana quÉ noche con angÉlica y raÚl con uno vital ademÁs de lujo como roberto tapia, david chocarro y un imitador de romeo santos e historias ins purodora como tamara mena que ha superado despuÉs de un accidente que la dejÓ en silla de ruedas vamos a conocer mÁs de su historia, veam veamos. >>> han sido aÑos difÍciles donde estoy muy orgullosa de todas las cosas que he podido hacer y a donde he llegado pero tampoco se me ha dado fÁcil nadie me han regalado las cosas he tenido que luchar. >>> aÚn despuÉs de lesionada en silla de ruedas y paraplÉjica del pecho para abajo continÚe con mi sueÑo de ser modelo. >>> quÉ historia. >>> quÉ bello. >>> allÍ estÁ allÍ estÁ tendra la oportunidad de estar en quÉ noche con uno hasta usarÍa interesante estaremos allÍ estamos le daremos una sorpresa muy especial a u

round of clothing and shoes to another family that i met in greece that i talked to everyday on whatsappi encourage everyone of my fellow citizens to seek out one of the 24 or 26 -- forgive me, i am not sure what the exact number is of international refugee stations around america and find out where syrian refugees have been brought to in your community. welcome them to your home. have them over for a holiday dinner. go through your clothes and shoes and things that you need, show them your neighborhood. bring them to your mosque, your synagogue, your church. the new paradigm for me is stop , helping isis recruit young men and women from all over the world. how? change their marginalized lives into wonderful lives. all over our country and every country -- give them education, opportunity, jobs, medical, agricultural, homes. give them everything that we have and want for our children, and give them to our children in this country. take care of everybody. the amount of money, $1.6 trillion spent on the war effort. take a fraction of that them put -- and put that towards humanitarian effor

it banned the whatsapp for two days. you can communicate without paying local phone data charges.illions and millions of brazilians switched to this called telegram a similar app. this one preferred by isis, by the way. you ban one, they're just going to go to the other one. keep in mind, brazil is the second largest economy in the western hemisphere. so, we're talking about millions of people who use whatapp who just overnight moved. >> very convenient when talking to people overseas or what not. >> free. >> that's the best. the cheapest price of all. >> it's a global world and it's a microclimate kind of bay area -- >> it's like a song. >> all right. well, disney, i guess, on the brain this morning, as well, with "star wars 2" but we also have cold weather to start off your day. >> i am thinking about all the "wars" fans online and it's in the 30s and low 40s this morning. so bundle up heading out. if you're not doing that, just going to work a regular day, it will be chilly to start and then more clouds moving in this afternoon. come over and take a look at the seven-day foreca

two of those apps used were whatsapp and telegram.als briefed on the investigation, the encryption, to protect user identity, what was said in those messages may never be known. >> as president obama is getting ready to speak at the counterterrorism center. that happens next hour. we want to bring in martha mcsally, on the house armed services committee and house homeland security team. thank you for being with us. >> absolutely. >> yesterday the house passed a measure that will require the president essentially to come up with a plan to deal with social media in battling terrorism. what are you after here? >> this was a unanimous recommendation. it was part of bipartisan task force that i served on well before paris in march of this year, the chairman of the homeland security committee created a task force. for six months we took a deep dive into isis, the threat of foreign fighter flow and homegrown extremism. isis is using social media in a very sophisticated way. they have an estimated 200,000 pro-isis social media posts a day. th

we do know the whatsapp and telegram are on their list because they're telling everyone this is what we're trying to use so nobody knows what we're up to. as jim comey mentioned in new york just a couple days ago during a visit here he said that 109 messages that were exchanged between one of the attempted attackers in the prophet mohamed contest in garland, texas, and a known isis operative in syria 109 of those messages the fbi has not been able to read them. that's something that's scary for these investigators because they'd love to know what else was being talked about. >> yeah. even if just some of them are encrypted you can't see them. that may be enough. evan perez, thanks very much. >> sure. >>> does the u.s. have the tools needed to decode these encrypted communications? how can the private sector help as well? two men who worked in the cia and fbi are weighing in. they're going to join me here next. here at the td ameritrade trader group, they work all the time. sup jj? working hard? working 24/7 on mobile trader, rated #1 trading app in the app store. it lets you trade st

familiar face attempting a comeback in of chat apps these days, between facebook messenger, snapchat, whatsapp and google hangouts, to name a few big ones. but it wasn't that long ago that aol and yahoo ruled the chat world with buddy lists and screennames. well yahoo messenger has returned in app form -- and it hopes to stand apart with a new feature -- the unsend. yes you can take back a message you regret sending, (maybe you drunk texters may be interested), but that also can cause fights when proof of a conversation can vanish at any moment. yahoo also lets you send a huge number of photos in an instant, and it's tying in tumbler gif search so you can quickly reply with an animated gif -- which is something you can also easily do on facebook messenger. the new yahoo messenger app is available for androids and iphones. but the timing of this launch, is a bit awkward. there have been anonymous sourced reports that yahoo is considering to sell off some of its business. but there's much bigger news breaking in the texting world. those of you with nexus smartphones and tablets will be the first

so facebook is probably making of whatsapp and facebook messenger. is money there but it has not been explored yet. carol: the presentation you did on the future of tech and media, 136 slides -- it was a lot of slides. we were going through it this morning. but there is one that says that beillion dollar business can built out of less than a minute of a daily users average attention. michael: you look at vice, which is now a business that is the last round of capital of multiple billions, the average person uses it for 16 seconds. buzz feed, average person uses it for 32nd -- 36 seconds. of course, that is averaged out. there are one or two people who are using it more. but it gives you a sense of how much potential there is in capturing but a small percentage of people's time. by the way, the whole slide deck is on her website, which is activate.com. carol: great. cory: talk to me about what you use activate four. michael: it was part of the wall street journal tech demonstration. that it is something that we put together for our clients and our fri

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i use whatsapp, if you have friends around the world if you have wi-fi you can talk for free, send messages for free, stay in constant contact with each other. it's very easy to use. the encryption just comes along with it. whether you know it has encryption or not, it's convenient. >> so just automatic. bob, cnn is also reporting authorities now believe abdelhamid abaaoud returned to paris ahead of the attacks through the greek island of valeros. it's unclear whether he entered as a syrian refugee, but what does it say about security in these parts of europe that he was able to enter back into the continent after he was already on a wanted list? >> he was a wanted man. and he knew that going through laros was the best way to get in. he could mingle in with the refugees whether he bought a blank syrian passport and altered it or a stolen one. but there's no place to check these passports now that there's not really a central government in syria. you can't go to the syrian government because they don't know what happened to these passports. and if i were an isis operative and wanted to get i

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of social awareness, thanks to the advents of such platforms as facebook, twitter and such app as whatsappe isis media has been thoroughly disruptive across the world, in terms of transforming movements and governments and even commerce. >> on the commerce side, we have seen our own vulnerabilities with hacking of corporations, data theft is a big issue now, that has been very common place and almost prevalent to see cyber warfare between nations as well. >> at this point it's a cost of doing business. which is fascinating because 15 years ago, how many people were actually using e-mail around the world as a regular part of their lives, now you've got billions of people on facebook. i myself have actually had my personal information stolen in a hack. it's something as we go forward, we're going do see as a regular cost of doing business. >> let's talk about what the cia got half right. in 2000, the cia rightly predebited a biotech boom, where people would there are other predictions that kind of fell short in this particular area, artificially grown replacement organs, not common place, an