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Facebook lost control of its users'

data and failed to tackle

the vulnerabilities in its system.

The man formerly in charge

of policing data breaches

at Facebook tells a committee

of British MPs he had

warned senior figures

at the company - but was ignored.

Facebook approached data

like it was "the Wild West frontier"

claims Sandy Parakilas,

and the amount of data that left

Facebook he says was "vast".

Is Russia's World Cup

games really comparable

to Hitler's Munich Olympics?

Boris Johnson says it is,

prompting outrage from Moscow.

I think the comparison

with 1936 is certainly right.

Also on the programme.

The pornstar, the Playmate,

and the reality TV

contestant - President Trump

could be facing three

civil lawsuits.

As if he didn't have enough legal

issues to deal with.

And the US housing secretary

who bought a $31,000

dining room set for his office last

year - it wasn't my fault, he says.

Blame my wife.

Get in touch with us

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'Beyond-One-Hundred-Days'.

Hello I'm Katty Kay

in Washington, Christian

Fraser is in London.

Facebook had a "wild west" approach

to users' data and little interest

in making sure profiles were used

appropriately - that's according

to a former Facebook employee who's

been testifying before

a parliamentary committee.

Sandy Parakalis worked on data

protection at the company

from 2011 to 2012 and has now

become a whistleblower.

He told MPs for years data had been

leaving the Facebook service and

going to an unfettered group of

people. He said it was a risk the

company was willing to take in order

to grow the platform as quickly as

possible.

With that the affair

analogy for the way Facebook

approached data, like the wild west

Frontier?

So the approach to that,

the wild West is an appropriate

analogy for top all this coming from

the fallout that was the Cambridge

Analytica took millions of profiles

from Facebook and used them to sway

support for the Trump campaign.

Here

is Simon Jack.

The pressure on Mark Zuckerberg

is growing to give his version

of how the personal data

of 50 million Facebook users ended

up with a consultancy that worked

on the successful election campaign

of Donald Trump and was secretly

filmed boasting of their influence.

The Cambridge academic who came up

with the original app says

he is stunned by the controversy.

Never in our wildest dreams did

we think anything we did would be

used in the Donald Trump campaign.

This is 2014.

Well before anybody would

think Mr Trump would be

a serious candidate.

So at the time, I didn't

know who their clients

were going to be and I did not know

the specific case.

I did know it was going to be used

for political purposes

but beyond that, yes,

it was well above my pay grade.

I should have asked!

Although he did sign an undertaking

that is migratory was from research

-- his app was for research only

and would never be used

for commercial purposes.

The implication in the story

is democracy has somehow

been undermined and that drew

a political response today.

The allegations are clearly very

concerning and it is absolutely

right that they should be

investigated, it is right

that the Information Commissioner

is doing exactly that,

because people need to have

confidence in how their personal

data is being used.

So how much are we, as consumers,

to blame for surrendering

the facts of our lives?

The conservation we should be having

is, what happens to our data,

how much are we comfortable

to share, who with, and what we

think about how that is done?

So this feels to me like a real

light bulb moment where people

are understanding that it is not

just clicking like on Facebook,

you are giving data away.

So far, this scandal has

cost Facebook, whose

London headquarters are there,

$50 billion in market value

and untold reputational damage.

The Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg

has been silent and he will speak

tonight , but how much

responsibility could

he and should he take for the misuse

of his own customers data?

Cambridge Analytica have always

denied they used the harvested data

in the Trump campaign

and deny any wrongdoing.

Mark Zuckerberg will need a better

statement than that.

Well Facebook have been talking to

committees on Capitol Hill.

Democratic Congressman

Joaquin Castro sits

on the House Intelligence committee

- which Cambridge Analytica's former

CEO testified before and then mocked

in the Channel 4 expose on the firm.

He joined me from capitol

hill a short time ago.

So Congressmen Castro,

you have had members of Facebook's

staff coming to speak to people

on the Intel committee

on Capitol Hill today.

Are you getting any more answers

from them than we have had so far

about what was going

on in their role in terms

of their users data being used

in political campaigns?

Well, of course I cannot speak

directly to what they told us

before the committees.

But I can tell you there

are still a lot of unanswered

questions we have about for example

how many different groups may have

got access to the same data that

Cambridge Analytica God.

-- got.

Whether Cambridge Analytica

to the best of Facebook's knowledge

shared that information

with any other groups.

And what safeguards they put

in place now to prevent that

from happening in the future.

Do you think Facebook

realises the seriousness

now of this situation?

I think they have come a long way

from where they started

right after the election,

where of course their CEO

and executives really denied that

Facebook as a platform was abused

or misused in any way.

I think it has become very clear

that if they are going to continue

to be a news source,

a major news source

in the United States

and around the world,

that they are going to have

to safeguard their platform a lot

better than they have.

They sat on this information that

Cambridge Analytica had 50,000,000

users profiles for 2 years.

So what prompted the change of heart

on the part of the company?

I think all of the revelations that

have come out, the wonderful

journalism that has been done,

the reporting, about exactly how

the platform was misused,

I think also the investigations that

have been conducted in public

and in classified settings.

Or not classified, our investigation

actually was not classified

but in a sensitive setting.

So you know, all that work I think

has been helpful in getting Facebook

to come to the table and realise

that they have a role to play

in helping to protect

American democracy.

At one point in the latest report

from Channel 4 News,

one of the members and I think

it was Alexander Nix, says,

we went to speak to members

of Congress but frankly,

you know what, they didn't even know

what questions to ask us.

They were ignorant, they did not

understand the technology.

Is that a fair representation of why

it has taken lawmakers not just

on this side of the Atlantic

but in the UK as well,

so long to address this issue?

I think part of the challenge

we have had was some witnesses not

being honest and not being candid

and they have played hide the ball.

I would put Alexander Nix in that

category and the problem has been

that when we have asked questions

the majority on the committee

which is controlled by Republicans,

have been unwilling to issue any

kind of subpoena or phone records

or computer records or travel

records to verify what has been told

to us or to contradict anything that

has been told to us.

When I watch these two

reports, I came away,

and it sounds kind of grandiose,

with the impression that Western

democracy has fundamentally changed.

The way votes are cast,

the way elections are won or lost

has changed significantly.

In a way that is worrying.

That kind of degrades the concept

of one person, one vote.

Is that too extreme, or is

that the direction we're heading in?

I think the big concern

that many of us have

is that for bad actors,

whether it is a Russian

operative placing Facebook

ads, fake Facebook ads,

or Cambridge Analytica,

social media has become the perfect

platform for their propaganda.

And social, we are in a full

social media age now.

Where people get more

of their information

from the social media companies

than from the traditional sources

in broadcasting and print.

And so to the extent that these

platforms can be abused

and are being abused,

that is a big hit for our democracy.

Congressmen Castro, thank you very

much for joining us.

We are in a full social media age.

Thank you.

A fairly terrifying thought.

Does Vladimir Putin have

something in common

with Adolf Hitler?

Britain's foreign secretary

seems to think so.

Boris Johnson said today

the Russian President will use this

year's world cup tournament the same

way the Nazi leader used the 1936

Berlin Olympics - for propaganda.

In return Russia's foreign

ministry spokeswoman said

Mr Johnson is "poisoned with hatred

and anger" adding that she found

it frightening that he

represents a nuclear power.

As you can see,

relations are not good.

This war of words follows

the expulsion yesterday of 23

Russsian diplomats -

and the same number of British

diplomats will be leaving

Moscow any day now.

How much worse will it get?

Mr Johnson has been taking

questions from the Foreign

Affairs Select Committee.

He feels Russia lost

out and so he wants to

cause trouble wherever he can.

A desire for the world

to take Russia

seriously again

at all, at any price.

And of course his principal

audience for this is not us.

It is his domestic audience.

Who want, after what

they see as all these

humiliations, who want to feel that

Russia is strong again.

And it is ruled by someone

who is strong and

capable of expressing his strength

and his desire for revenge.

Even in a place like Salisbury.

The Labour MP Ian Austin also raised

concerns around this

summer's football World Cup

in Russia making comparisons

with Hitler's 1936 Berlin Olympics.

They got the right to stage

the World Cup clearly through

corruption.

Putin's going to use it the way

Hitler used the 1936

Olympics.

The idea of Putin handing over the

world to the captain of the winning

team fills me with horror.

I'm afraid that's completely right.

The idea of Putin using this as a PR

exercise to gloss over the corrupt

regime for which he is responsible

fills me with horror.

The Russians are still

denying any involvement

in the attack on former spy

Sergei Skripal, and now

they're even more enraged,

because the UK's ambassador

to Russia did not attend a meeting

in Moscow about the nerve

agent that was used.

The Kremlin says it's another

example of Britain refusing

to listen to its answers.

Now Moscow is even suggesting

Britain may itself be

behind the poisoning.

The basic logic here reveals just

two possible options.

The British government

either is not capable

of defending its country from such

a - let's say - terror

attack on their territory

or they are directly or indirectly -

I'm not accusing anyone of anything

- staged an attack on a Russian

female citizen.

In the last few minutes the Foreign

and Commonwealth Office has

responded saying a British embassy

representative attending the

briefing and received no credible

explanation. In contrast to Russia

it continues, the UK is fully

compliant with its obligations under

the Chemical Weapons Convention with

the experts are returning to the UK

to collect samples. While I was

looking at Twitter I spotted this

from President Trump. He was pretty

angry about the media response to

his call yesterday with President

Putin. The fake news media is

crazed, they're wrong, getting along

with Russia and others is a good

thing not a bad thing. He is

responding to a report in the

Washington Post today, a leak of the

briefing notes he was given before

the call.

Yes, President Trump was

given briefing notes before his call

President Putin yesterday and

according to the Washington Post in

those notes, in capital letters, it

was written, do not congratulate.

And what does he do, he goes ahead

to congratulate him. We do not know

if he ignored the briefing, had not

read it, but it seems his cross

about the fact there was some kind

of leak because it is all over the

media. But not just the president

who responded to this, a group of

senators were up on Capitol Hill

yesterday and giving a briefing

about another issue and they were

asked by a journalist about resonant

Trump congratulating resident Putin

put up here is their answer.

We're

talking about connection integrity.

Could you comment on the idea

that the president today

called Vladimir Putin

to congratulate him on winning his

election?

That is all for. Time for lunch.

It

is the speed of the leak and

sensitivity that has angered the

cheese of staff. Dashed chief of

staff. Because it came from a close

number of people in the Oval Office.

It seems someone on the national

security side did not like the fact

that resident Trump congratulated

Vladimir Putin and wanted it to be

known they think it is a bad idea.

So they went ahead and leaks the

fact that the president had been

briefed not to make that

congratulatory statement at the

beginning of the call. The president

clearly is going to do exactly what

it wants to do and I'm hearing there

is something of a witchhunt going on

inside the White House at the moment

to try to find out who is

responsible. As we've just suggested

he has quite a lot of headaches at

the moment. Legal headaches as well.

There's the Mueller probe,

Congressional investigations

and then there are the women.

This week the spotlight has turned

on Mr Trump's personal

life and there seems to be some risk

of legal problems.

Here's where we are today.

The porn star, the Playmate,

and reality TV contestant.

Three women putting

pressure on Donald Trump.

Stephanie Clifford goes by the stage

name Stormy Daniels.

Stormy is what she

could be for the White

House.

She says she had an affair

with Trump in 2006.

And a few weeks before

the 2016 election, his

lawyer mysteriously

paid her $130,000.

Stormy's tough LA lawyer says

she was physically threatened

and warned to keep silent.

Mr Trump denies the relationship.

But in a polygraph test

that she chose to take in 2011,

she answered, yes,

to these questions.

Actually, I'm going to pass on even

reading these aloud.

As Miss Daniels herself recently

tweeted, technically, I didn't sleep

with the POTUS 12 years ago.

There was no sleeping.

PS.

I'm not going anywhere.

Mr Trump was allegedly busy in 2006

because that was the year Karen

McDougal, a Playboy model, also

claims to have been having an affair

with him.

In 2016 Miss McDougall was also

paid, $150,000, by tabloid

paper which never published her

account of the affair.

Now Karen McDougal wants

a court to declare

that agreement null and void -

she says she was tricked into

signing it.

The third woman is Summer Servos.

Summer was a contestant

on the Apprentice in 2007.

When, she says, Mr Trump groped her

and kissed her against her will.

The Trump campaign, branded her

and other women as liars.

Now she has filed

a lawsuit saying that was

defamation and heard her business.

On Tuesday, the New York judge

dismissed the President's claim that

he is immune from being sued

because he is, well, the president.

It is a heap of possible

legal headaches for

the president and a heap

of uncomfortable explaining to his

wife.

And with us now is Wendy

Murphy - a professor

at the New England School of Law.

Thank you for joining us. Either

legal implications for Donald Trump

concerning these women?

Oh yes. I do

not even know where to begin. There

are two lawsuits filed against him

in California. Both of them asking

not for money but to avoid the

contracts that they signed agreeing

to stay silent about their affairs

with him in exchange for money.

Another lawsuit, filed in New York,

is a defamation lawsuit and as we

just heard, the judge has allowed

the lawsuit to go forward on the

grounds that the president just

because he's the President, is not

immune from lawsuits for private

conduct. And of course the

defamation claim alleges private

conduct, claims that he made that

the woman was a liar and publicly at

a time when he was knocked President

of the United States, he said that

and that reference to private

behaviour. So he has tremendous

exposure. It remains to be seen...

If you are advising President Trump

at the moment, how nervous do you

think he should be?

I think he has

the most significant exposure with

regards to some laws that are not

exactly up front and centre in the

lawsuit and that has to do with

campaign finance laws. In the United

States there are very strict

campaign finance laws that control

the money that is spent to affect a

candidate, to affect his campaign

and they include money spent for

private contracts and private debts.

So although it has not yet become a

problem for the president in a legal

sense there is a concern that the

payments he made to the women to

keep silent were made for the

purpose of influencing his election.

And his defence thus far which is

why it did have not been any charges

yet, has come from his lawyer

Michael Cohen has said publicly

earlier in the year that money spent

in particular with regards to Stormy

Daniels, would have been spent in of

his candidacy. If that is true then

there will not be a campaign finance

violation problem. But the more

money he has spent...

I was just

going to say, for Bill Clinton it

was not so much to be a fair about

the lie. And here comes the problem,

if the special Counsel sits down

with him and if he goes down this

line of questioning and says did

Michael Cohen handover money for a

nondisclosure agreement, he has to

answer the question and in that

situation it is a Catch-22.

Yes and

that was going to be my second point

about his legal exposure that we

have not yet seen. The so-called

perjury trap because remember the

president has already said publicly

that he did not have affairs with

these women and the woman who is

accused him of sexual assault is

lying. So he is on record as having

disclaimed those reports and if he

does have to submit to a deposition

or answer questions in discovery,

the discovery process during any of

these lawsuits, he will be in a very

difficult position. And if he lies

under oath that is itself a crime, a

prosecutable crime. You can lie to

the public, that is not a crime but

you cannot lie under oath.

Thank you

very much for joining us.

Everyone

is saying to me here, three civil

lawsuits, president facing

allegations of extramarital sex,

sexual harassment, threatening

behaviour, if this were other

president, he would be in serious

trouble.

Yes and there are quite

right, he would be and this would be

the story that dominated every

headline in the country for weeks.

Just as it did with Bill Clinton.

But they did not elect him as a

paragon of virtue.

They knew what

they were getting and even

evangelicals in the country signed

up to what they're getting and I

think Donald Trump is counting on

that. They knew what they were

getting, and so people will not turn

against me. The issue is that Donald

Trump, his support among women and

particularly amongst white college

educated women, has collapsed since

the last election, it has slumped.

But more voted for him than Hillary

Clinton.

That is true but that has

reversed now and he is negative with

these women. If they hear the story

that he had affairs with all these

women and not just affairs but had

affair just after his own wife had

given birth to their child, I do not

know. I'm not sure how well that

would go down with a lot of married

women. It is sensitive timing, I do

not think they will like that. I

think it could be a political

problem for him. Some other news of

the day.

Boko Haram militants have

reportedly returned most

of the schoolgirls abducted

in northeast Nigeria in February.

Parents say the insurgents drove

into the town of Dapchi

in a convoy and dropped off at least

76 students outside the school.

Local media is reporting the girls

are "exhausted and underfed".

It's feared five of the 110 students

kidnapped may have died.

Members of Kosovo's opposition

party have thrown tear

gas canisters in parliament,

to try to stop a controversial

vote going ahead.

MPs were about to vote

on a border agreement

with Montenegro, which would help

Kosovo gain visa-free travel

to the European Union,

but the opposition party

is against it.

It's not the first time

they've used tear gas

in parliament to stop the vote -

other protests have lead to street

clashes with police.

Here's a question...let's just say

you made an expensive

purchase, charged it

to your employer and then

publicly blamed your wife -

how popular would you be at home?

Because that's exactly how Ben

Carson, the United States Secretary

of Housing and Urban Development,

has defended the purchase

of a 31,000 dollar dining

set for his office.

Mr Carson has said that he left it

up to his wife Candy

to pick out the furniture,

which includes a table,

chairs and sideboard.

Officials from Mr Carson's

department have said

the pre-existing table was 50 years

old, falling apart and

unable to be repaired.

I have some sympathy for him, not

for throwing his wife under the

proverbial bus but in my household,

I'm not actually on the acquisitions

committee. I am a on the budget

committee in a consultative role,

but it has been set in our household

when it comes to soft furnishings,

it is not my strong suit.

I think I

am with your wife on that.

Ben

Carson is not your favourite person.

I'm not popular with Ben Carson.

Let's take a quick trip down memory

line. The real reason women who have

been sexually abused and come

forward to talk about the stories is

precisely this, but all too often

they are accused of being liars. Are

you saying these are dying?

That is

your characterisation because you

need to characterise it that way to

try to make me the bad guy.

It is a

question.

Stop, stop. Can you turn

her microphone off?

I'm just going

to turn your microphone off!

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and BBC World News...

The European Commission has proposed

that large tech companies should pay

but the call of their share of tax

for the EU countries would collect

tax on profits generated within

their territories regardless of

where a company is actually

headquartered according to the new

plan.

That's still to come.

Over the next few days it looks like

the weather will be mostly behaving

in cell. There will be some rain

around but no surprises on the

horizon. On the short term no frost

on the way tonight for most. This

morning we had a frost and Thursday

morning is likely to look different.

You can see the clouds lifting out

of the South, a south westerly wind

blowing in our direction. So

remaining quite mild into Thursday.

Friday looks as if it is going to

cold of a little bit. -- to cool

off. As far as Wednesday night into

Thursday's concerned a lot of dry

weather. Just the chance that across

some south-western areas there could

be some frost out in the

countryside. That is ready much it

for most of us Thursday morning

temperatures hovering around five or

6 degrees. Potentially even 7

degrees across eastern parts of

Scotland. Belfast, around 4 degrees

breast thing. This is what we expect

to happen during the morning, the

cloud increasing across western

areas. We expect rain in Belfast at

the time we get to the early

afternoon. Some rain also in the

Western Isles. But the bulk of the

country should have a fine day. Hazy

skies and temperatures getting up to

around 12 or 13 degrees. The jet

stream keeps on moving weather

systems in our direction. This

illustrates what the jet stream is,

you have the warm and the cold side.

The cold air always to the north. We

will have temporarily some milder

weather on Thursday. Maybe slightly

cooler heading into Friday. That

shift in the wind direction coming

out of the North West. So maybe some

wintry showers across the hills of

Scotland. And single figure

temperatures. In the south in the

sunshine temperatures around 12

degrees. Saturday a lot of bright

weather, hazy across much of England

but sunshine around as well. The

showers continue across Scotland,

some of those wintry across the

hills. That is very much it. Thanks

for watching.

This is Beyond 100 Days,

with me Katty Kay in Washington.

Christian Fraser's in London.

Our top stories:

Pressure grows on Facebook founder

Mark Zuckerberg as US and UK

lawmakers demand answers over how

personal data from 50 million users

was accessed by Cambridge Analytica.

I think part of the challenge that

we've had with some witnesses

is that they've not been honest

and they've not been candid,

and they've played hide the ball.

Bridgen's foreign Secretary has

agreed that Russia's World Cup this

year will be like Adolf Hitler's

Olympics. Said it was silly to think

of climate to Putin glorified in the

World Cup. And still to come in the

next half-hour.

The bomber who terrorised Austin,

Texas for weeks is believed to have

been 23-year-old Mark Anthony

Conditt.

Police say he detonated

a device inside his car

Tech companies play a 3% tax on

their turnover in the EU.

Officials say the measures

are to ensure digital companies

pay their fair share of tax.

To Texas now, and the man accused

of a string of deadly bomb

attacks in Austin is dead.

He was killed by one

of his own devices, detonating it

as police closed in on the side

of a highway.

He was a 23-year-old

unemployed Texan man.

Police don't know why

he was planting bombs

in parcels around Austin,

and they don't know

what he was doing in the 24

hours before his death.

They are warning there could still

be undetonated bombs out there.

As a precaution, all buildings

within a five block radius

around his home are being evacuated.

Here's our correspondent,

Gary O'Donoghue.

Police closed in on the suspected

bomber in the early hours,

tracking him down to a hotel

north of Austin.

Whilst they waited for extra

back-up, he drove off and then

pulled into a ditch at the sight

of the road.

As the police approached his car,

he set off another bomb.

As members of the Boston Police

Department SWAT team

approached the vehicle,

the suspect detonated

a bomb inside the vehicle.

Knocking one of our SWAT officers

back, and one of our SWAT officers

fired at the suspect as well.

The suspect is deceased,

and has significant injuries

from a blast that occurred

from detonating a bomb

inside his vehicle.

CCTV in the past couple of days

appears to show the man believed

to be the suspect dropping off

a package at a FedEx office

in Southwest Austin.

He has not been named officially,

but thought to be a 23-year-old

called Mark Anthony Conditt.

He lived in Pflugerville,

just outside the city.

A school friend of the suspect I

spoke to didn't want to be

identified. What she said he seemed

like a normal boy.

I would

definitely say that I am completely

surprised. I wouldn't have been this

shocked if it was somebody that I

didn't know, but seeing that this is

someone who I share memories with,

even though it is just a little bit,

is really crazy to me. I just know

that regardless of his personal

reasoning, it wasn't active evil and

it is not excusable -- it wasn't

active evil.

Since the beginning of the month,

there have been six separate bombs,

five of which had its budget.

Two men have died, and half a dozen

have suffered serious injuries.

A number are still in hospital.

Police do not know the motive

of this bombing spree that

has terrorised Austin

for the last three weeks.

They are also telling the public

that they don't know

where the suspect has been

in the last 24 hours,

so there could still

be devices out there.

Gary O'Donoghue, BBC News, Austin,

Texas.

After reports of Cambridge

Analytica's use of Facebook

user data came to light,

the DeleteFacebook hashtag

started to gain traction.

Not a huge surprise, perhaps.

But then Brian Acton tweeted this.

"It is time.

Hashtag delete facebook."

Mr Acton isn't just

any twitter user.

he's the co-founder of Whatsapp,

the company Facebook bought

in 2014 for $19 billion.

So if its time for him,

is it time for the rest of us?

Let's get the thoughts

of Paul Bernal, a lecturer

in Information Technology,

Intellectual Property

and Media Law at the University

of East Anglia School of Law.

Good to see you. Lots of people

asking me on to my timeline today

how we go about elites in our

personal information, should we want

to? Is it that easy?

No. Facebook

doesn't make it easy for you at all.

I have been campaigning for people

to consider at least leaving

Facebook for more than five years

because actually what has happened

is, it shouldn't be a surprise, if

you've been paying attention to the

way that Facebook's business model

works. We shouldn't think of this

just in terms one event of Cambridge

Analytica manipulating data. This is

in essence how Facebook's business

model works. It profiles. It

analyses. It targets had been and

try to manipulate you. Usually

manipulating you to buy a different

product or use a different service.

But actually the mechanism is the

same as for political manipulation.

So yes, I would say people should be

considering deleting Facebook from

their system. The Facebook obviously

don't like that. And they make a

really rather difficult. You have to

follow a series of menus. They first

make you Diack the faded and think

about it for another 14 days. And

then finally when you press delete

it takes a never mind for it to go.

But they do provide a mechanism.

It's not just what is on your

Facebook profile. I was reading

today about an Austrian privacy

advocate, and he made an application

to Facebook in 2011 and they have

records, 1200 files in fact, of all

the IP addresses of the machine CD

used to access the site. A full

history of messages and chats, his

location, even the items that he

thought he deleted were on this

file. So they have everything.

Yes,

they have everything. They have much

more than that as well. You have to

understand, they don't just have the

information that you put up about

yourself or the information that

they can mark out. For example they

keep all the information about

exactly which device you have used

to log onto Facebook, when, which

version of the software you're

using, all of that kind of stuff.

But they also have the information

they can derive from that. And they

can work out all kinds of things.

That is part of the biggest Raval

here. The sophistication of big data

analysis. It now means they can

derive all kinds of stuff about you

from the most mundane information.

You may think you are just answering

a few questions about which products

you like. They're able to derive

about your sexuality, your religion,

your political opinions and things

like that. You might be able to

delete some of that, but some of it

remains. And also other people put

up information about you. I don't

have a Facebook account, but my

relatives do.

Yeah.

So your

relatives are putting up information

about you. I was tempted to delete

my Facebook account when Christian

decided that he was not going to

accept me as a friend, which was a

very difficult day for me. We are

all cut it, or should.

My two

followers are going to miss me.

--

we are all gutted, Christine. Do you

think Facebook should be broken up?

Yes, I think in the end that is

going to be the only solution. But

it is very hard to do. It is a

double-edged sword here because I

want level it is the way that

Facebook puts everything together

that is the main attraction of it.

And then if you don't have it all in

one place it is not the same thing

at all. And we cannot forget that

Facebook is an incredibly useful

tool in a lot of ways for a lot of

people. So it is easy for some

people were in a relatively

privileged position to say yes, I

can delete Facebook. I didn't deal

with things in other ways. But in

some places it is much harder to do

that and for some people who are

more isolated or who run businesses,

it is much harder to do so. So what

we have to do is find a way to make

Facebook work without doing quite so

much damage to us. How we do that is

going to be very, very hard. Because

there are conflicting motives or

different regulators. In America for

example political speech is

protected. How can you stop them

doing political ads was backwards in

the UK, political ads are highly

regulated.

Must leave you there.

Thank you very much.

If you're worried about the security

of your information on Facebook

we have some advice on how

to keep it safe.

Just go to our website

at bbC.com/news, where technology

reporter, Jane Wakefiled,

outlines the steps you can take

to protect your data.

I've been looking at it today and

it's well worth the read. Go and

have a look at that.

I thought I was

fascinating as you have deleted

yours, but everybody you know who

still has you on Facebook still has

information about you. It is really

hard to get this out of the system.

Dubious election tactics aren't

the only issue tech companies

are dealing with right now.

Amazon, Google and Facebook have

been accused of shifting profits

around the world to take advantage

of tax havens, or low

tax jurisdictions.

In Europe, they have paid a fraction

of the profit they have earned,

and the EU has had enough.

Today the Commission outlined

plans for a digital tax.

In future, tax will be raised

according to where the companies'

users are based not where

the company is based.

It will take time to design such

a tax, so in the meantime the EU

will introduce a 3% levy on those

tech companies with global

revenues over $900 million.

The European commissioner

responsible for taxation

is Pierre Moscovici.

There's no physical presence,

so the result is that as far

as we know, those companies

a something like 9% on tax,

while the rest of space 23%,

and there is a problem of level

playing field, a problem

of fairness and equity there,

and it cannot go on that way.

Those companies need

to pay their fair share of tax.

Should say before we go to our next

topic...

Our Economics Editors is in Brussels

for the announcement.

Mark Zuckerberg who has been a wall

has just said the company has made

mistakes on the hemorrhaging

political situation. He is very much

involved incidentally in the

background to rectifying the

problems, but he has not made a

public appearance, but he has just

said we did make mistakes when he

came to Cambridge Analytica. There

will be a lot of people who said it

wasn't just that particular company

either. Let's go to Brussels. Good

to see you. The digital tracks, the

point that Pierre is making here is

that they are trying to protect

their tax base in Europe. They have

tax loss which really fitted the

last century.

Right. Tags was really

built from the 20th century, to tax

businesses in terms of where they

were physically -based, literally

bricks and mortar. So if a business

was headquartered in a company you

went and bought things from them. It

was pretty obvious what their

business was. When your business is

algorithms, data, intellectual

property, that means that taxing

those 11 more intangible assets as

their caught is much harder. Really

the companies like Google and

Facebook, they pay their taxes where

their products were invented, were

developed, so for those two

companies in the main in America.

They follow all the tax rules as

they always make clear. The European

commission, Pierre, has put these

details on the table today, and

wants to rip up those rules. As you

say, they are now looking at taxing

activity. So where the users

actually are, and where the

advertising revenue is created. This

will be a huge step change in the

way that businesses are taxed around

the world. Quite hard to define what

is a digital business as opposed to

what is a non-digital business. But

clearly in their sites is Google,

Facebook. And this data issue, very

much goes alongside in terms of

trust, this tax issue that these

companies have gained a huge amount

from our data, from our use of their

products across Europe. But as

Pierre says, they haven't paid as

what he describes their fair share.

It's time to build up that tax base,

not just the income taxpayer but you

and me who should pay the taxes, but

the businesses themselves.

You are a

guy who can think on his feet. I

know this, I have spoken to you many

times. I move for you right in

there. Mark Zuckerberg, part of his

statement that he has just released

he says that the most important

actions to prevent this from

happening again today, we have

already taken years ago. That is

Mark Zuckerberg releasing a

statement just a few minutes ago.

You study businesses your whole

career. You know the key thing in

this kind of thing is to handle a

crisis well, to get the

communications right. Does Mark

Zuckerberg putting up a statement

now help Facebook get this problem?

Certainly will help. It is

interesting, interviewed Mark

Zuckerberg this time last year. When

he bought out if your member that

big manifesto, heal the world

manifesto, he wanted to go around

all the states of America to have

these discussions with people. I

think for Facebook, for Google, for

all the companies they found it very

difficult to handle their huge

growth. Facebook is a company

younger than my 14-year-old son.

That is the astonishing phenomenon

we are talking about. They are sort

of rising the rule book themselves

as they go along. Governments and

religious have really found it

difficult to keep up with these

companies in or miss growth and the

change in the way we communicate and

in the information we see. It

certainly is a help that Mark

Zuckerberg is coming out today,

tonight in California and saying,

"Yes, mistakes have been made, we

have tried to act." But there is a

faith here and companies like

Zuckerberg. In companies like

Facebook. That the community in the

end will get to the right

conclusion. Frankly governments and

regulators say that is too slow. It

can no longer be left to you to

decide what the rule book is. We are

going to try and take control of

this. Not just on data, but on tax

as well. These are the big two toxic

issues. Many critics would say

Zuckerberg, Google, Amazon, all the

other big global digital layers,

simply being too slow to understand

that yes they bought a lot of good

to be world, but they haven't done

enough to control their behaviour.

You see, I knew I could throw you in

it. I knew you would be able to

handle that just fine. You hadn't

heard the statement, but you are you

so much for joining us.

Let's see if that enough. Going back

to the digital tax. I will be in

Brussels tomorrow for the programme

for the European Council meeting.

Apparently he's been talking to

Steve Manu gene and the Treasury

Secretary over there because they

are concerned that when they start

talking about taxing tech companies

they are talking about taxing

American companies. And they are

very concerned that this will be

seen as a tit-for-tat after the

steel and aluminium tax which they

will discuss tomorrow. We get into a

bit of that. This will he seemed as

them trying the bows in the

direction of Washington.

You're

right, something American companies

by the way make a point of telling

us a lot.

Federal Reserve bank has just handed

down it's decision to raise interest

rates by 0.25%, the first

raise of the year.

That decision will increase

the cost of borrowing money

for people around the world.

It was announced by Jerome Powell,

the Federal Reserve's new chairman.

Our correspondent Kim

Gittleson is at the Federal

Reserve in Washington.

The Federal Reserve has been moving

in this direction for a while. They

clearly feel the American economy is

doing better. Just to run power have

a concern that if he raises interest

rate they put a damper on the

economy?

Central bankers don't like

any surprises. This move has been

telegraphed for sometime now.

Investors knew they be raising

interest rates. Most of the work

thing attention to the Fed

projections to figure out if they

were raising interest rates three

times or four times this year. The

media and the press conference

Pastor Mr Powell was questions.

Frankly the Fred was quite split.

Eight members in favour of three

increases this year. Seven in favour

for increases. Mr Powell would not

answer questions, saying that that

was showing the array range of

opinions and investors should be

paying attention to economic

fundamentals and that will give them

guidance about what the Fed is going

to do into the future.

Three or four

times this year. It makes a

difference.

Thank you very much for coming.

Sounds arcane, but that can have a

huge impact on the global economy.

Great to have him with us. This is

Beyond 100 Days and still to come.

Still to come, a spring snow storm

has hit the north east of America

and I've been out in the blizzard,

I'll show you some of the scenes

right here in Washington.

More than a million NHS workers

in England can expect pay rises

if they agree to a deal struck

between most unions and ministers.

It follows a pay cap imposed

for the last five years

and a pay freeze before that.

Our political editor

Laura Kuenssberg reports.

Porters.

Paramedics.

Nurses, who care for

millions of patients.

The staff who keep the NHS going are

finally to have a bigger pay rise.

THEY CHANT: Scrap the cap!

For five years, there have been

calls to do just that.

Aside from some automatic rises,

the limit on public-sector pay

increases of 1% meant

wages fell behind.

The Secretary of State

for Health and Social Care,

Secretary Jeremy Hunt.

And the election left the Tories

in no doubt about the irritation.

So...

Today's agreement on a new pay deal

reflects public appreciation

for just how much they have done

and continue to do.

Rarely has a pay raise been

so well-deserved for NHS staff,

who have never worked harder.

When a nurse pleaded

with the Prime Minister for a pay

rise on national television,

she was told there was

no magic money tree.

So, can he tell us how this pay

rise will be paid for?

Has the Prime Minister's

horticultural skills grown

said magic money tree?

Taxpayers' money for the rises

will come from the Treasury to start

with, not out of existing health

budgets, so the big

unions are on board.

But staff still have

to approve the deal.

And with inflation, it might not

make up the difference.

Perhaps for NHS staff in England,

these rises can't come fast enough.

Remember, limits on pay have been

in place for years -

part of the Conservatives' efforts

to balance the nation's books.

But public money

will still be tight.

This is an easing of

a squeeze, not the end.

If you are just joining us we have

had in the last minute or so a

statement from Mark Zuckerberg, the

CEO of Facebook. Just going through

the statement because it is a long

posting to put on the Facebook

website. Let me pick up the things

that he is saying about past

problems, he says "We will

investigate all apps better access

to large amounts of information

before we change our platform to

dramatically reduce data access in

2014, and will conduct a full audit

of any app with suspicious activity"

and he goes on to say that they are

on to get in touch with anybody who

lost their data or if data was

passed onto third party apps. They

will be informed.

We put this on the

screen earlier but unless you heard,

eyesight is a lot better. It is very

long. On his Facebook page. He says

that they have dealt with problems

already. That were the kinds of

problems that led to the Cambridge

Analytica getting hold of the

Facebook data for millions of users.

The question is going to be for

Facebook, is this going to do my.

Slide share price. As said earlier

on the programme this is about trust

and actually whether people will

have enough trust in the system.

OK,

now...

Political aides play a crucial role

in the smooth running of government.

And so it makes perfect sense that

Downing Street is offering

lessons in spinning,

no, not the exercise classes,

we're talking about good PR.

A document leaked from within

government reveals one of these

first training sessions will be

titled "Working With Number ten".

Advising politicians how to avoid

the pitfalls is crucial.

Though not so easy in

the case of Donald Trump.

Yesterday ahead of his call

with Vladimir Putin,

aides had written on his security

briefing: "do NOT CONGRATULATE".

Not only did he praise Mr Putin

he also forgot to mention

the poisoning in Salisbury.

Here to help us make sense

of it all, is the Times

columnist Matt Chorley.

Picked this up this morning and

written about it. Why is it

happening now? They have been in

power for two years, the main

government. It seems they are going

back all the way to induction

classes.

They are, circulating

photos of each other. So they can

all learn each other's names. First

day of school. What is the reason my

coming you could say the Tories have

been in government for eight years.

Part of it is because it has pink

like a queer out. There was a big

clear out when David Cameron left

and Theresa May came in. Another

part of the disastrous election in

June last year. Actually the

collective knowledge that you would

normally get in a government has

evaporated and many ways. Quite a

lot of people now in government who

didn't come up through opposition

and having been around the corridors

of power for that long. Don't really

know how it works. How does the

government department work. The

trouble is one you put something

down about in school, somebody that

makes it to people like me which

makes the first rule of spads school

is that you probably shouldn't be...

Talking about spads school!

Let's

say you are giving the goals and

opportunity of working as an aid in

the White House. How would you

manage this president?

Golden

opportunity? I think...

Like Marco

Tucker.

The problem is, we have got

this with Jeremy Corbyn in the UK as

well. This problem of politicians

who are beyond spin and control and

the conventional rules of, this is

how we got about which is why people

love them. When you got a president

who's got all these briefings and

ignores them, does his own thing.

Bridgen on a block capitals, do not

congratulate him, there is a risk

that the only thing he remembers is

the word congratulate. No amount of

spin or minds to take or briefings

or PR experts laying down a plane

can compete with a president who has

got Twitter close to hand back and

just basically say all those plans

are coming out. Maybe it is not even

worth bothering.

I would love to be

a fly on the wall at spads school.

See what they did.

Naturally. Thank

you very much for joining us. That

was great. Managing Donald Trump,

who would take on that task.

You've been talking a lot about how

the weather has been terrible in

Britain recently.

Luckily here, it is March. And that

always means it is very nice. So I

went outside to take a look at what

it is really like.

So, Christian, it's the second day

of spring in Washington.

Always my favourite time of year.

I spent the weekend getting my

garden ready to plant pansies.

I put my sweaters away.

Soon there'll be the cherry

blossoms, really excited about that.

The only problem, mother

nature doesn't seem

to have got the message.

Look, it is snowing in Washington.

We've been out in

a blizzard all day.

The federal government is shut.

My kids don't have school.

This is not spring.

I think it's still winter.

They called it this morning. I was

watching one of the American

networks. They called it The Great

Slop because there is lots of it,

but it is not speaking. It is

slushy.

Every weather storm has to

have a name I now. The one I heard

in Washington that this was called

storm Daniels.

Excellent.

Get it?

I

get it. Yeah. Shall I show you a

picture of the Pope just before we

go.

Go on.

It's been windy at

Vatican City today. Someone has got

fish wire on the top. Lid off. I

feel a bit sorry for the Pope

because he keeps having these were

drug crises. There you go, just over

the back of the chair. As he keeps

having these wardrobe crises. This

happens quite a bit. There is a bit

of elastic around the top.

You do

realise no one is listening to you.

I mean, like, nobody.

All we are

watching is the picture. Can we put

that on loop? Can we go out on the

Pope with his hat right off one

Lukas because no one actually wants

to listen to anything else.

He is a

good sport.