depending on who would happen in terms of how the president did it. right. it s much more effective and efficient i think for the president to nip this investigation by dealing with rosenstein. right. because he s the one who is overseeing it. and give him less of a fight. daniel goldman former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. the man who revealed that the personal information of tens of millions of facebook users was improperly shared with cambridge analytic is going to be on capitol hill next week. nbc news confirmed that christopher wiley is going to speak to the house judiciary committee next tuesday. and with democrats on the house intelligence committee next wednesday. facebook estimates that 87 million users were affected. it s now rolling out new privacy measures that it says will conform with new european rules on what companies can do with people s data. first of all, users will be asked to make decision fs about the datas that collec
any changes and there is a little tiny see your options thing that apparently you are supposed to click if you don t want to agree to the terms of reference and do something else. this already has critics saying come on. just make it a yes or no. make it easier. it doesn t seem that facebook is going to be encouraging a lot of people to not share their data. ali, we know this. we ve seen this movie before. facebook has a very simple goal, which is it would like to gather as much data about as many people as they possibly can and they would like to build as big a network and as big an advertising business as it can. the global data protection regulation represents a form of friction that gets in the way of doing that. what facebook is going to do is it s going to do just enough to comply with the letter of the law while maintaining maximum freedom to do exactly what it did before. if that means designing the various forms so that the giant button is hey let s just keep doing the same
europe. reuter s reports said they would be processing things in ireland in order to reduce exposure to the law as more than 70% of users live outside of europe and the united states and many other countries do not have similar privacy laws. the company told reuter s we apply the same privacy protections everywhere, regardless whether your membership is with facebook, inc., or facebook yirld. joining us now, an early and current investor in facebook. he was an early mentor to mark zuckerberg. he is a good friend of our show. roger, good to see you. we ran through some of the ways in which you are going to be able to choose or you can choose on facebook to either accept and agree to the terms or conditions or make changes. again, maybe i could ask our camera to take a shot of it. there is a big fat i accept button if you don t want to make
expect. one of the things we have to remember is technology is constantly evolve asking we can even imagine some of the things that people are going to do going forward. for example, facebook now believeless it can anticipate our emotional responses and steer them. yeah. because they have all this data. and i think a lot of people, if they could see what the future was going to bring they might be more cautious. they would say wait a minute i need more control. i m glad we have this conversation a lot. it is important to understand why when facebook asks you when tao to do with your data to make an informed decision. the right answer is no. always no. make them prove to you. how they are going to use it and why. roger, thank you for joining me. coming up for the first time in 60 years a castro isn t officially running the government in cuba.
little button is hey why don t we do the right thing that s the way they are going to design it. i m going to represent my friend stephanie ruhle here who insists on bringing up the fact that look we all have to have greater personal responsible for our information. facebook didn t steal anybody s personal information. everything facebook has on us is based on our behavior or what we have told facebook either by way of actually entering it into facebook or by liking things and doing that. but they have also quired ali, remember they have acquired data on the outside. they actually do know things about us because they have built profiles of people who aren t even members of facebook. you are mostly right but not entirely right. i guess the continuation of that question would be though fundamentally, why do i care? i get that facebook has done the wrong thing and i get they want a lot of information on me and everybody else. but if the net result is me getting better ads, should