called eternally starving or i m not perfect. what should we do? i think he missed that piece of it when he went through his very deliberate conversation with you, so let me give you the answers to this. if they re willing to sign on, i m all with it. but so far we haven t seen that. one, we need privacy legislation. we re one of the few countries that doesn t have a federal privacy policy that fits the sophistication of these tech companies. that means saying, you know what, if you ve got to share your data, if you want to share all your private data, you have to opt in and make an actual decision to do that. make that the law of the land. right now the states are struggling to do it on their own. secondly, we need to make sure that our competition policy is updated. they bought instagram. we ll never know what instagram could do to help kids because they bought it. in the words of mark zuckerberg, they bought it to compete.
called eternally starving or i m not perfect. what should we do? i think he missed that piece of it when he went through his very deliberate conversation with you. so let me give you the answers to this. if they re willing to sign on, i m all with it. but so far we haven t seen that. one, we need privacy legislation. we re one of the few countries that doesn t have a federal privacy policy that fits the sophistication of these tech companies. that means saying, you know what, if you ve got to share your data, if you want to share all your private data, you have to opt in and make an actual decision to do that. make that the law of the land. right now the states are struggling to do it on their own. secondly, we need to make sure that our competition policy is updated. they bought instagram. we ll never know what instagram could do to help kids because they bought it. in the words of mark zuckerberg, he d rather buy that compete. we have to update our children s privacy laws, and th
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collecting data on you, targeting you with ads. and lo and behold, more suicidal thoughts on behalf of these young girls, targeting really bad information when it comes to eating disorders to kids. and i think this is the moment that we need it because what can we do? privacy legislation. a complete change in our economy over the last decade, no change to federal privacy legislation. we need to do something about our competition policy, ali. that is what i ve been advocating for, so these dominate platforms can t decide to put their own products at the top or do things that will exclude competitors from succeeding at the cost of competition. and then finally we have to do something more to protect kids online and make these algorithms which literally give profits to these companies to make them more transparent. so, some of us it makes a lot of sense. in fact it seems to be a bipartisan slam dunk. in the world before the world we live in and you ve been dealing with this for a lo
literally as we found out are putting profits in front of people that it s a home profit model. collecting data on you. targeting you with ads. and lo and behold, more suicidal thoughts on behalf of these young girls. targeting really bad information when it comes to eating disorders. to kids. and i think that this is the moment that we needed, because what can we do privacy legislation a complete change in our economy in the last decade. no change to federal privacy legislation. we need to do something about our competition policy, that is what i ve been advocating for, so these dominant platforms can t decide to put their own products at the top or do things that would exclude competitors from succeeding. at the cost of competition, and finally we have to do something more to protect kids online. and make these algorithms which literally give profits to these companies to make them more transparent.