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Speaker 1: I'm into this story. I know a lot more than

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Speaker 1: more into it. In Europe, they treat your private information

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Speaker 1: online as your private information. It's your property. That's the law,

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Speaker 1: your data in the parlance of our time, and you

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Speaker 1: have to agree in writing or at least clicking on it.

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Speaker 1: I agree to to turn it over to somebody else.

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Speaker 1: Obviously it's not that way in the United States. But Google,

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Speaker 1: even though it's a that's on in your Google still

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Speaker 1: doesn't care. Ryan Fall does a great job covering tech

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Speaker 1: and related issues for The Washington Post. Frances find Google

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Speaker 1: many millions of dollars. Brian joins is now Hello Brian,

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Speaker 1: how are you, sir, do it all right? Thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me, It's always our pleasure. So well, why did

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Speaker 1: fifty seven mill Well, the French said Google hasn't been

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Speaker 1: clear enough about how, um, you know, it provides choices

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Speaker 1: um to sign up for Google services and use them. Um.

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Speaker 1: And as a result, Google now had to pay about

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Speaker 1: fifty seven billions I'm sorry, fifty seven million dollars um

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Speaker 1: that you know, my, uh, what Google is going to

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Speaker 1: do with my data? Spread over seventy five densely written

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Speaker 1: for consumers? Well you know the rules that um you know,

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Speaker 1: Google goal allegedly ran a foul of g d PR

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Speaker 1: reconsider how they provide notice to consumers about how their

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Speaker 1: what regulators are really going in after here. So are

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Speaker 1: you know, if you talk to a lot of regulatory experts, UM,

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Speaker 1: they do, by and large say, you know, Europe places

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Speaker 1: of we saw Google getting hit with. If you'd like

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Speaker 1: the number one lobbyist in America. Everybody should know that

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Speaker 1: at this point in twenty there's one reason for us.

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Speaker 1: There's one reason A lot of times it's complicated, you know,

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Speaker 1: big lobby in it. This one's simple. They their entire

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Speaker 1: model is you use Google, They get all your info,

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Speaker 1: they make money off of it, don't regulate anything about

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Speaker 1: privacy or online advertising. That is why Google spent, for instance,

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Speaker 1: sure we don't go with European style laws. The prickly

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Speaker 1: libertarianism of the Armstrong and Getty show is very big

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Speaker 1: I understand the argument or you don't have to use Google, right,

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Speaker 1: It's a decent enough legalistic argument that we offer a

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Speaker 1: our seventy five pages of user agreements, again scattered over

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do with it, and you said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's fine, clear right, And that was actually a part

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Speaker 1: It's just not realistic, which you know, Viva le France,

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Speaker 1: that that you subtlety shades are gray. France regulates everything

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Speaker 1: I think in this case they've probably done something I

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Speaker 1: By the way, I googled the fact that Google was

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Speaker 1: So I appreciate that they didn't bury it seven pages

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