U.S. And British Lawmakers Demand Answers From Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg

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Lawmakers in the United States and Britain are calling on Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg to explain how the names, preferences and other information from tens of millions of users ended up in the hands of a data analysis firm connected with President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.

The demands came in response to news reports Saturday about how the firm, Cambridge Analytica, used a feature once available to Facebook app developers to collect information on 270,000 people and, in the process, gain access to data on tens of millions of their Facebook “friends”- few, if any, of whom had given explicit permission for this sharing.

Though both companies have been embroiled in investigations in Washington and London for months, this weekend’s demands have taken on a more personal tone, focusing explicitly on Zuckerberg, who has not testified publicly on these matters in either nation.

“They say ‘trust us,’ but Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about what Facebook knew about misusing data from 50 million Americans in order to target political advertising and manipulate voters,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said Saturday night.

(c) 2018, The Washington Post · Craig Timberg, Tony Romm 

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2 COMMENTS

  1. In a perfect world would it be nice that everyone stopped using face book. But I said in a perfect world, for too many people like to hook up rather than face to face, hook up is safer then face to face one has to be responsible for what they say.

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