activity including web searches and even their encrypted phone activity photos and videos that were sent to other people and location information is this app was tracking your physical location throughout the day the app also asked friends to see users amazon purchase history i mean that s getting really personal people facebook was advertising this as you can see to young people on their favorite platforms we re talking about snap chat and instagram you can this is just an example one of these ads here the goal was likely to get an edge on their competitors facebook is a ruthless company if they know what young people are doing they can say hey look this nap chat feature for example seems to be very popular right now why don t we integrate that into our facebook platform very powerful tool for them a lot of people especially saying that this was like spying on other people s phones yeah i mean it s sounds like something that orson welles would have written a bell doesn t it facebook i
young as 13 for complete access to their data. the facebook research app provided users with a vpn or virtual private network that gave facebook access to everything on a user s phone, including private messages, e-mails, web searches, and internet browsing activity. now, vpns are not inherently bad. they re frequently used by people and companies to protect data but in this case, according to tech crunch, facebook was using them to collect the data of everyone who downloaded the app. facebook said it will no longer run the program on apple products and issued this statement, saying, like many companies, we invite people to participate in research that helps us identify things we can be doing better. we ve provided extensive information about the type of data we collect and how they can participate. we don t share this information with other people and people can stop participating at any time. okay, file that away for a minute. the second big headline, facebook knowingly duped kids
other. i think until you find a clear, definitive motivation, all options are on the table. the police, the sheriff here in this case, they don t want to make that declarative statement until they ve gone through all of the facts with a fine tooth comb. they ve got to be thorough. this is a very important investigation. there are lot of lives impacted. thousands of lives when you think about the family members suffering through this grief. they want to ensure they re thorough and that within they put information out, it s accurate and able to help resolve this question, alex. what about the reports, sean, he had booked those hotel rooms overlooking at festivals and venues in chicago and boston near fenway park there. this happened months before las vegas. so how does that behavior fit into the picture? i think we will see some more activity like that. you make those determinations by doing a thorough analysis of his financial transactions, perhaps his mobile devices, looking at pho
points? what they will do is collect all of these videos, these cell phone videos from all the different people and put them on to a timeline, and establish, you know, what was happening at certain points in time of this attack, where was the shooting coming from, and who was the shooter? they wanted to nail down first of all was there just one shooter, and to close off that question whether or not it was just paddock acting by himself or other players in this. there s a lot of information and a lot of data that they are going to be collecting and combing through, and it s going to take time. this stuff doesn t happen overnight. it will take time for them to go through all of it. and search history for this guy will be crucial. was this guy trying to build a bomb and that could be as simple as checking some of the searches there, right? yeah, the web searches are a good piece of evidence to see what was this person s
monopolies. part of that work, he praised an antitrust levied against google in europe. it turned out to be one of the think tank funders. google founder eric schmidt called the foundation head to express his displeasure and lind was fired. it s not hard to imagine a similar situation happening in almost any other organization here in washington. google funds hundreds of nonprofits and think tanks. on the right, they donate to the heritage foundation, the federalist society, americans for tax reform. on the left, the gift of the naacp, the clinton foundation, they donated to libertarians at cato and ironically enough, they gave money to the american antitrust institute. which is hilarious. in washington google spent more than $50 million last year lobbying. third among all corporate lobbyists. this year, they are on track to be number one. even when they don t have money, they have power. google has monopolistic power on web searches, online video and