higher, absolutely. there is, you know, a genuine, you know, a genuine risk that this data has been accessed by quite a few people and that it could be stored in various parts of the world. and, craig, rescuer writing too about how facebook could face a big fine? right. so first of all people are focussed on the cambridge analytic ka thing and rightfully so. but the way they gained access to data were wildly and universally available just a few years ago. we ll never get that data back. we ll never get a full akiting of who and if you get a notice today that says you weren t affected, you should assume you were affected by someone else doing a similar kind of thing. secondly, the scale of fines is really staggering. they re talking about potentially $40,000 or more per violation, 71 million americans for the cambridge analytica thing alone. then there s more than 100 million americans affected by the scraping issue that facebook
in about 90 minutes he is set to meet with florida senator bill nelson ranking member of the commerce committee. that committee along with the judiciary committee will look at facebook s big privacy scandal. today can be the day to find out whether you ar i mong the ten of millions of facebook users who had their personal information compromised. that also happens in about 90 minutes from now. and facebook will send out one of these two notification. look at this graphic on your screen. if you get the notification on your left, the short one, that means your information was not part of that big breach, right. it not hit by cambridge analytic ka. the british consulting firm with ties to the 2016 campaign. what you should be worried about is the one on your right. if you get that mess tag means you were compromise. the you ll be able to click on that blue put bubutton to see he affect. i m going to bring in jenna johnson and charlie savage. keg, let s start with you first. this meeting h
order to target voters. that firm denies violating facebook s terms but earlier cnn senior media correspondent brian stelter spoke with our colleague anna cabrera to explain how this happened. cambridge analytica in its infancy who created this personality quiz, it created this app on facebook. listen, i ve done some of these, you ve probably done some of these. most of these are just fine, there s no evil purpose behind them. but in this case, this personality quiz which about 250,000 people took, the data from it was then used by this professor and then handed off to cambridge analytic ka and then used to create profiles of voters. now what s remarkable about this, you start with those 270,000 people, then you connect all their friends and before you know it you have 50 million facebook users s information. that s what was remarkable about using this personality guys and
michael cohen, the big bully himself was trying to shut up stormy daniels. well, why? because president trump was flirting with the idea of running for the presidency back in 2012. but when did it actually become a real threat to president trump? right before he was elected. so, that is why that is key. it s crucial to think about what was the value or the consideration that was given to stormy daniels to be able to keep her mouth shut. and whether or not that was the real basis for the entry into the settlement agreement. we ll see whether it goes to arbitration behind closed doors or whether or not we ll get it out in a court of law. well, if there are six more women, we ll keep on doing this story. we ll be back later. thank you very much. don t book anything on weekends we ll have to have you come back probably every weekend to discuss this until it comes to an end. up can go up, i will tell you why you should pay close attention to something called cambridge analytic ka. that
and another one by the head of cambridge analytic ka in august about wanting to work with julian assange and wikileaks. wikileaks was an interrog tory for russia. and clearly there was a trifecta there at some point or another. to be continued, congresswoman jackie spears. thank you so much. always great to talk to you. great talking to you too. you d think she d have a thing or two to say about today s indictments, but so far, silence from hillary clinton. one of her senior advisers in 2016 gives me his two cents next.