whatsa whatsapp. you don tend e-mails on what s up and they are en crypted. mark zuckerberg said in the hearing there will always be a version of facebook that s free. read between the lines. that leaves the door open for a pay version of facebook. a source tells me they set up a whole mock trial room, mock hearing room for the last week. he s been taking hard questions nonstop. today he will face more questions from the house energy and commerce committee. we will see if they looked at the criticism yesterday and the questions might be a little more pointed today. chris in. laurie, thank you very much. look, when you are sitting in front of a senate panel and people are asking you questions, it is going to seem hostile. i thought that was a pretty good day for zuckerberg. i don t think there was a real
donald trump campaign. i m sure the elected officials are saying, well, facebook obviously has some power here, how am i going to regulate it? one thing i wanted to bring up is, when facebook bought whatsa whatsapp, it was asked by the european commission, these are different companies, these users of whatsapp were not giving their consent to facebook. when you acquire this new company, you have to gain new consent. facebook had a huge fine by the eu because it just decided to take all the whatsapp data is transfer it to facebook. that s at the heart of the issue. forced consent. facebook, there s a presumption you re going to give us everything if you want to use our services. they re asking you to trust us, but the history has shown they re not worthy of that trust. they can put up all the friendly icons they want and say, here, you can change your privacy settings, but only 5% of people are going to go to the trouble to change those settings.