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THE BIG STORY: Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE has delivered his confidential report to Attorney General William Barr, signaling the end of a two-year investigation that has dominated President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE's term in office.

Barr told the House and Senate Judiciary Committees that he is reviewing the report and "may be in a position to advise you of the Special Counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend," according to a letter circulated by the Justice Department.

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Barr said he intends to consult with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein Rod RosensteinDOJ kept investigators from completing probe of Trump ties to Russia: report Five takeaways from final Senate Intel Russia report FBI officials hid copies of Russia probe documents fearing Trump interference: book MORE and Mueller "to determine what information from the report can be released to Congress and the public consistent with the law."

The White House said Trump has not been briefed on the report.

"The next steps are up to Attorney General Barr, and we look forward to the process taking its course," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. "The White House has not received or been briefed on the Special Counsel's report."

Trump's personal attorneys, Rudy Giuliani and Jay Sekulow, also said they were awaiting Barr's decision.

Mueller has not recommended any future indictments, according to multiple reports.

A long two years: The Mueller probe began shortly after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey James Brien ComeyDemocrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate Book: FBI sex crimes investigator helped trigger October 2016 public probe of Clinton emails Trump jabs at FBI director over testimony on Russia, antifa MORE, who was in charge of the bureau's original probe. Mueller's investigation explored the possibility of collusion in the 2016 presidential election between Moscow and Trump's campaign, and whether Trump obstructed justice.

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FACEBOOK ASKS JUDGE TO TOSS PRIVACY LAWSUIT: A judge on Friday heard arguments from Facebook and the District of Columbia regarding the D.C. government's lawsuit arguing the social media giant harmed city residents by failing to protect their data.

Facebook asked the court to dismiss the case, and D.C. Superior Court Judge Fern Saddler said she will decide whether to do so by the end of April.

The lawsuit stems from revelations last year that Cambridge Analytica obtained data on hundreds of millions of Facebook users from a researcher who collected the information through a third-party app on the platform.

D.C. says about 340,000 residents who use the platform were harmed by the company's failing to inform them about sharing info with third parties. Facebook failed to enforce its own privacy policies, and that its privacy settings in general are "ambiguous and confusing," D.C. argues.

Facebook on Friday laid out its argument for dismissing the lawsuit, saying D.C. does not have proper jurisdiction over Facebook. Attorneys for D.C. disputed that argument.

More on the case here.

FEMA BREACH: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Friday it failed to protect 2.3 million disaster survivors' sensitive personal information, potentially putting them at risk for identity theft and fraud.

The Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General found that the breach happened as the agency was transferring information to a contractor to secure temporary housing for those impacted by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the 2017 California wildfires.

The agency said it is taking steps to mitigate the situation by working with the contractor to remove unnecessary material from its databases.

"Since discovery of this issue, FEMA has taken aggressive measures to correct this error. FEMA is no longer sharing unnecessary data with the contractor and has conducted a detailed review of the contractor's information system," FEMA press secretary Lizzie Litzow said in a statement.

More on the disclosure here.

TRUMP NAMES CTO PICK: President Trump announced Thursday that he would nominate Michael Kratsios to serve as the country's chief technology officer, a role that has remained vacant since the beginning of the Trump administration.

Kratsios has served as deputy U.S. chief technology officer and as deputy assistant to the president for technology policy since January 2017.

Kratsios, 32, is well-connected in the field after having worked as chief of staff at Thiel Capital, an investment management firm, before joining Trump's transition team, Bloomberg reported.

He has played a key role in the administration's policies on 5G, national broadband, drones and artificial intelligence, according to a White House announcement.

IBM CEO Ginni Rometty praised Kratsios's nomination as "great news," adding that the nominee is "strengthening America's leadership in technologies like quantum computing and artificial intelligence."

Read more here.

FCC SETTLES WITH JOURNALIST IN RECORDS LAWSUIT: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this week agreed to pay a journalist $43,000 to settle a lawsuit over the agency's decision to withhold records about fake comments posted to its website.

The FCC on Wednesday settled the lawsuit with freelance reporter Jason Prechtel, who sued two years ago after the FCC did not fulfill his documents request.

Prechtel in 2017 submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking details about suspicious comments on the FCC's website. The comments, which have been the subject of significant scrutiny, appeared when the agency was seeking to repeal Obama-era net neutrality rules.

When the FCC did not respond to his FOIA request, Prechtel sued.

The FCC in the settlement this week did not admit wrongdoing but agreed to pay Prechtel's legal fees.

"After a year and a half of litigation and a court order requiring production of requested records, FCC agreed to pay $43,077.80 to wrap up the case," Prechtel's attorney, Joshua Burday, told Gizmodo. "This is a good reminder that you don't need to be able to afford a lawyer to exercise your FOIA rights."

Prechtel obtained the information he was seeking through the lawsuit, and the FCC data formed the basis of his Gizmodo article last month that said investigators were looking, among other places, at the owner of a Washington, D.C., publication with an advocacy arm as part of the probe into who posted the fake comments.

New York investigators and the Justice Department are both looking into the 23 million public comments posted when the FCC proposed rolling back the Obama-era net neutrality rules in 2017. About 800,000 of the comments were unique, and 99.7 percent of those were in favor of maintaining net neutrality, according to subsequent studies of the data.

Read more here.

EUROPE SNUBS US ON HUAWEI: The European Union (EU) will not require its member countries to ban Huawei from their wireless networks, spurning U.S. warnings that the Chinese telecom poses an intelligence threat, according to Reuters.

Citing four unnamed sources familiar with the decision, the outlet reported that Andrus Ansip, the European Commission's digital chief, will present his recommendation next week.

The proposal will reportedly advise member states to adopt the EU's cybersecurity guidelines to coordinate and share information on their wireless networks.

According to Reuters, the plan would be to allow countries to decide for themselves whether to ban Huawei.

The U.S. has pushed its allies to reject Huawei, arguing that it has close ties to the Chinese government that could give Beijing the ability to use the company's hardware to spy on other countries.

Read more here.

STOP FOLLOWING ME: A bipartisan group of senators sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr this week, asking how a Supreme Court decision on location information is impacting government surveillance programs.

Sens. Ron Wyden Ronald (Ron) Lee WydenGOP set to release controversial Biden report Democrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate GOP senator blocks Schumer resolution aimed at Biden probe as tensions run high MORE (D-Ore.), Rand Paul Randal (Rand) Howard PaulSecond GOP senator to quarantine after exposure to coronavirus GOP senator to quarantine after coronavirus exposure The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by National Industries for the Blind - Trump seeks to flip 'Rage' narrative; Dems block COVID-19 bill MORE (R-Ky.), Patrick Leahy Patrick Joseph LeahyBattle over timing complicates Democratic shutdown strategy Hillicon Valley: Russia 'amplifying' concerns around mail-in voting to undermine election | Facebook and Twitter take steps to limit Trump remarks on voting | Facebook to block political ads ahead of election Top Democrats press Trump to sanction Russian individuals over 2020 election interference efforts MORE (D-Vt.) and Steve Daines Steven (Steve) David DainesTrump seeks to turn around campaign with Supreme Court fight McConnell locks down key GOP votes in Supreme Court fight Will Republicans' rank hypocrisy hinder their rush to replace Ginsburg? MORE (R-Mt.) wrote in the letter to Barr on Thursday about the ruling in Carpenter v. United States, which requires that a warrant be obtained in order to gain location information about Americans in most scenarios.

"In light of the Carpenter decision and the recognition of Americans' legitimate interest in privacy around [cellular location information], the American public deserves to know how the intelligence community treats these records and other sensitive metadata in national security cases," the letter reads.

The senators asked for information on whether the intelligence community was collecting cell phone location data on Americans and if the Justice Department has issued any guidance on the decision.

Read the letter here.

AN OP-ED TO CHEW ON: NASA engineer suggests settling Saturn's moon Titan.

A LIGHTER CLICK: We've all been there.

NOTABLE LINKS FROM AROUND THE WEB:

Warnings of a dark side to AI in health care. (The New York Times)

AT&T's '5G E' is actually slower than Verizon and T-Mobile 4G, study finds. (Ars Technica)

Microsoft resurrects Clippy and then brutally kills him off again. (The Verge)

Utah just became a leader in digital privacy. (Wired)