a current customer. make sure they have your current address. it s not really free money because you paid for it in the first place. verizon has to say the majority of the data session involved minor data exchanges. do you say data? i don t know. i go back and forth. okay. minor data exchanges caused by software built into their phones. others involved accessing the web which should not have incurred the charges if you look at $6 a person, 15 million customers, you re talking about maybe as high as $90 million in overcharges over months and months and months. it raises the question to me what else are we paying for that we don t know? and at some point, a few pennies here and there becomes money for somebody. i think about it all the time. electric bill. how would i know and how would i prove? look at all of those access fees and charges and taxes, 15
to facebook so that the company can improve its users profiles in turn facebook gives data brokers access to some of its data. broker market is huge specially in the u.s. it s also due to the fact that data protection laws just like the ones we have in europe the exist in the us means that mining and trading data is basically fair game. when all the data exchanges between a company like facebook and other data brokers takes place in a figurative black box. black box trucks with. data brokers servers are often located in the us beyond the jurisdiction of european however the servers also contain data belonging to us in users. considering our views and opinions can imagine if you like users are really should know much more about you. so your coming from. russia will do some cities ultimately
democrat, asked them to come, and they were gracious and will ing to come and expose their views and they were warmly received. even though we disagreed on policy. the funding thing is, we re all americans, we all care about the country. we get along on a personal basis. i think it s helpful to have the dialogue that looks for common vision. did dade axlerod or you or anyone else mention all these percolating scandals? now it appears out of control. well, we didn t spend a lot of time talking about what washington is feeling right now. all of these scandals, and there are some that are very, very disconcerting and where we know there s been wrongdoing, the irs scandal is one of those. there are other issues that have been brought to the for such as the nsa monitoring of data exchanges and so forth. e-mails, phone calls and so forth. but that raise questions but are