warnings? yeah, the warnings have come from a lot of different types of groups including sag, the union that represents tv and radio actors as well as from the democratic national committee which of course had that famous email hack during the 2016 campaign. the dnc telling its campaigns, the democrats running for president this year in a warning that was obtained by nbc news from its security officer that if you or any of your staff have already used the app, we recommend that they delete the app immediately. tony, after those warnings went out, experts said that the face app privacy risks are about the same as other popular apps like facebook. do you think senator schumer s warning went too far? we should establish at the outset, we have no evidence that photos of you and your friends have been taken or manipulated by the russian government but i think the vagueness of the privacy policy here and the fact that we ve seen a number of
look older but there s questions about what the company does with your photos. a lot of celebrities are playing along, lance bass with his former nsync band members. the fun turned to worry, revealing it s headquartered in russia and privacy policy allows the company broad license to use your photos however it wants. senator minority leader chuck schumer sent a warning about that app asking the fbi to assess whether the personal data up loaded by millions of americans may find its way into the hands of the russian government. the company says it doesn t share user data with third parties. let s bring in nbc s josh leathtterman covering national security for years, live from beautiful aspen, colorado at the security forum and tony rom, in washington. good afternoon to you both. josh, start with you. can you tell us more about these
attention as this one did because of the use by celebrities, but also have concerns and it shouldn t take celebrities pushing this to the forefront for people to be able to take this seriously and make sure they re protecting themselves in cyber space. tony, the company told nbc news it doesn t transfer all of your phone s images to the clouds, only the ones you select and most are deleted from servers within 48 hours. is that enough to calm people who are worried, people like me who actually use that as well and who knows what s going to happe happen? probably not enough to satisfy most people and may not be enough to satisfy regulators because we ve seen time and again that these vague privacy policies could be put to use in somewhat nefarious or misleading ways, and then the company ultimately faces sanctions from the u.s. government. we re talking about this right now in the case of google which is facing fines and other penalties from the federal trade commission, facebook is
airplane full of passengers and crew. the hearing is part of an investigation into design flaws related to boeing s mcas flight software, which was implicated in the fatal crashes of two separate boeing 737 max jets in indonesia and ethiopia. captain sully warned that a failure to address systemic issues and factors means crashes can and will happen here. all boeing 737 max planes have been grounded since march following the two crashes. and we got break news. the u.s. government is wrapping up its investigation into youtube for how the company handles children s videos. that s according to reporting from the washington post which sites four people familiar with the matter. youtube is owned by google. and this investigation is already made the tech giant revult some of its business practices. the reporter who broke the story tony rom joins me now. this is about an algorithm, a guess, that has caused people who are looking at things that are child pornography to then be
somethings that as popular as youtube. the second issue though is this broader question about how the al go rhythm works and why you are fed the videos after you watch one thing. and so youtube has put forward a number of solutions using software and other tools that might steer some of this bad stuff away from kids. but the issue here is that it s going to come at great cost to the company. and it may never truly get all those kids off of its site. tony, good to see you. tony romm is a senior tech policy reporter at the washington post . what tends to immediately come to mind is privacy, user data, maybe even russian interference into the 2016 election. but what about the other very serious and very troubling, possibly unintended consequences, the ones that don t make headlines or reach congress radar. a new york times opinion piece warns that when the next pandemic strikes, we ll now be fighting in on two fronts. the first way is what we already do, understanding the disease, re