2,500 medical facilities based in st. louis. it starts when patients check into one of the affiliated hospitals, doctor s offices or seen sooen yo yore care centers. the results are loaded into the nightingale system. the data involved in project nightingale includes lab results, doctor diagnoses, and hospitalization records among other categories and amounts to a complete health history complete with patients names and dates of birth. this is not anonymized. is actually real information tied to real americans. the company involved the companies involved told the wall street journal that the project is in compliance with federal health law and includes robust protections for patient data. joining me now is the cofounder ever the center for humane technology who is an early current investor in facebook, was previously a google investor and he s our guru when it comes to issues of privacy on the internet. roger, you and i had a conversation a few months ago in which you we weren t
unintended consequences in the dictionary, facebook is going to be the answer. this is supposed to make us smarter. the exchange of information is supposed to make us better and more open-minded and smarter. and there are people like laura rosenpeberger who are out there looking out for us. the other thing is this is about voter suppression. we can beat voter suppression if everybody gets out and votes. that s right. you can fight all of this stuff if you actually do go to the polls. we ll make sure to remind everybody when that s happening. thanks for keeping this flame alive. roger mcnamee is an early facebook advisor and co-founder of elevation partners and the center for humane technology. breaking this afternoon, a huge scam that affected people in nearly every single state. three ukrainians are accused of stealing the records of more than 15 million credit card users at more than 3,000 businesses across the country. for more on this i m joined by nbc s justice correspondent
and they are throwing it out to the people, reporters to figure out what s next. so people like you and your teams can go through it. we appreciate that. joining us now to continue the conversation is the cofounder of the private equity firm elevation partners and the center for humane technology. he is an early and current investor in facebook and early mentor to mark zuckerberg. and a longtime advocate of fixing this problem. roger, anything that came out today that surprised you? actually i m just real. ly pleased that they are making these moves. i think that for facebook, you know, they have been in this deny, deflect, dissemible mode for so long. and i m just really happy that they are beginning to embrace the challenge of protecting our elections. this is not going to solve the problem, but it is a step. importantly, they are looking at the problem from many different angles. and what i really like from the
we re going to be working to stay ahead of our adversaries forever. i like that dramatic pause thing. the social media platform also unveiled a feature that will allow users to delete information it collects as it follows you through the web. this, i think, is huge. joining me to take about this is the cofounder of the private equity firm elevation partners and the center for humane technology. he s an early and current investor in facebook. he was an early mentor to mark zuckerberg and he s been our friend on this show. what do you think? is this a big deal? it is a big deal. i m really glad they re doing this. clear history, which is the name of the new feature that they re going to offer, will allow you to get rid of whatever search history facebook has collected on you as well as to prevent advertisers from searching your stuff. here s the problem. facebook has been creating an
the guy who created the like button is involved in this and they ve created the center for humane technology. so what they re trying to do is actually raise awareness, they re creating an ad campaign, the truth about tech. they re going to work with tech companies, go in and try to have ethical designs. teach tech companies how to actually create products that don t necessarily addict us. we ll see if that happens. i know win spoke to tristane harris who s leading the movement, a former google employee and asked him why silicon valley is talking about this now. people are realizing that technology is a political actor. it s one of the largest and perhaps the largest cultural force in the world. because 1.5 billion people use youtube. that s about the number of followers of islam. these products are completely unaccountable to human interests. people in the tech industry know all of this is happening now. so it s now just a matter about getting honest of how we fix it. what do you t