The latest privacy scandal Facebook (local time):
11:30 PM
Published reports say that CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg plans to testify before Congress about how his company collects and uses data people.
CNN, citing unnamed sources in a report Tuesday that Zuckerberg “come to terms” with the fact that he will have to testify in a matter of weeks. The representative of Facebook said that the company has received invitations to appear before Congress and talk to legislators.
Zuckerberg said last week in an interview with CNN that he would be “happy” to testify if he is the right person to do it. The company is facing an unprecedented investigation after reports of mining firm used data obtained by dishonest means, the data of tens of millions of users to try to influence the election.
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2 PM
CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg is the slowing down of the agenda of the British parliamentary Committee investigating the growth of fake news, offering to send leaders in their place.
Damian Collins, Chairman of the parliamentary Committee on media, Zuckerberg called “think again” on Tuesday about the selection does not appear, and repeated the offer to his testimony via video link.
Facebook offered to send the chief technology officer Mike Shipper or Director of product Chris Cox.
Zuckerberg is under pressure to appear before the U.S. Congress after allegations that consultants Cambridge analysts collect data of 50 million users of Facebook and used the material for US President for 2016 Donald trump.
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1:50 PM
Expert computer, which triggered a global debate on electronic privacy, told MPs that the official campaign to support a British exit from the European Union had access to the data that were inappropriately collected from millions of users of Facebook.
Christopher Wylie previously claimed that Cambridge Analytics are used to collect information from more than 50 million users of Facebook, to help the election campaign of 2016 President of the United States Donald trump.
Wylie said in the house of Commons media Committee on Tuesday that he “absolutely” believes the canadian consultant on elections AggregateIQ relied on the Cambridge database analyst to work on the referendum of the EU.
He told the Committee: “You can’t have targeting software that has access to the database. Cambridge analyst will have database and access to this database, otherwise the program will not work.”
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9:55 am.
The whistleblower in the scandal privacy Facebook will testify before British lawmakers investigating the growth of fake news.
Christopher Wylie argues that the Cambridge analysts collect data of 50 million users of Facebook and used the material in the election campaign of 2016 President of the United States Donald trump. Moreover, the material has become possible to micro-target users with propaganda material.
At a press conference on Monday on the issue, Wylie refused to answer questions about how the data was also used in the UK campaign to leave the European Union. He said he would discuss the issue when he appealed to MPs from the parliamentary Committee on media on Tuesday.
Sourse: abcnews.go.com
