Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesFacebook CEO and founder mark Zuckerberg will testify at the Committee of the U.S. house of representatives energy and Commerce hearing on Facebook on Capitol hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018.
Aaron P. Bernstein/ReutersFacebook CEO mark Zuckerberg will testify before the energy and house Commerce Committee hearings on the use and protection of company data users on Capitol hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018.
On Tuesday, speaking in front of almost half of the Senate, Zuckerberg acknowledged that the company made mistakes in its handling of user data.
Zuckerberg faces Congress grilling over privacy of users Facebook, election 2016
Zuckerberg notes indicate that it was drafted by the senators to request retirement
“We did not take a sufficiently broad view of our responsibility, and it was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I regret it. I started Facebook, I run it and I am responsible for what happens here,” he said.
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty ImagesFacebook CEO and founder mark Zuckerberg will testify at the Committee of the U.S. house of representatives energy and Commerce hearing on Facebook on Capitol hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018.
On Wednesday at the hearing, Zuckerberg announced that his personal data was sold to a third party.
The social media giant began notifying 87 million users that their data was not properly collected the data of the company Cambridge Analytics, a claim the firm denies. Cambridge Analytics is not a trump campaign during the presidential elections in 2016, but the campaign trump told ABC News in a statement that during the campaign and the RNC for their constituents, not the Cambridge analyst.
The data firm released a lengthy statement before the speech Zuckerberg.
“Cambridge analyst is not to “hack” Facebook,” reads the statement released Monday afternoon, read. “Cambridge Analytics are not unlawfully or unreasonably collect or share data with someone else. Cambridge analyst has not violated the rules of FPC.
Cambridge Analytics and said that earlier he was not aware the data had been illegally obtained by a third party, and that it was destroyed as soon as it became known. The company also said that the data was not used in the framework of the firm with trump campaign.
Democrats questioned Wednesday Zuckerberg about political advertising on Facebook, given the widespread use of the trump campaign site during the campaign of 2016.
“I think it’s something that has not received as much attention,” Rep. John Sarbanes, d-Maryland, said before the meeting. “There should be much more transparency about what these set of tools.”
On the eve of the hearing, Facebook announced a number of changes to its privacy settings and the information in order to resolve problems of users.
“There’s a lot of interest on this back home,” the Republic Fred Upton, R-Mich., on Tuesday one of the members of a group who call into question Zuckerberg said. “We all use Facebook”.
REM. Billy long, Republican of Missouri, questioned Zuckerberg about “the case of facemash,” “hot or not game” he created as a student at Harvard and that allowed us to evaluate and compare the photos of students.
Long asked if the site still “works” and told them about the website.
Zuckerberg said long gave a “clear description of a website prank,” he started as a student and said he has “nothing to do with Facebook.”
Long read the question posed of Diamond and silks, African-American sisters who are outstanding trump surrogates, who claim that Facebook limits the distribution of their posts and their content is considered “unsafe”.
“What is unsafe about two black women supporting President Donald J. Trump?” Long asked for.
Zuckerberg said that Facebook made the “law enforcement bug” regarding the content of the sisters.
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