Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, faced US Congress for the first time on Tuesday over the data sharing scandal.
Zuckerberg answered questions from the Senate commerce and judiciary committees on privacy, data mining, regulations and Cambridge Analytica during the course of the marathon five - hour hearing. Here are the key moments:
Right to privacy
“I believe it’s important to tell people exactly how the information that they share on Facebook is going to be used.
“That’s why, every single time you go to share something on Facebook, whether it’s a photo in Facebook, or a message, every single time, there’s a control right there about who you’re going to be sharing it with . . . and you can change that and control that in line.
“To your broader point about the privacy policy . . . long privacy policies are very confusing. And if you make it long and spell out all the detail, then you’re probably going to reduce the per cent of people who read it and make it accessible to them. ”
Storing and selling personal data
“Yes, we store data . . . some of that content with people’s permission. ”
“There’s a very common misconception that we sell data to advertisers. We do not sell data to advertisers. ”
“What we allow is for advertisers to tell us who they want to reach, and then we do the placement … That’s a very fundamental part of how our model works and something that is often misunderstood. ”
Senator Tammy Baldwin asks whether the Cambridge University neuroscientist Aleksandr Kogan sold the Facebook data to anyone besides Cambridge Analytica?
Zuckerberg: “Yes, he did. ”
“We’re investigating every single app that had access to a large amount of information in the past. And if we find that someone improperly used data, we’re going to ban them from Facebook and tell everyone affected. ”
Source: The Guardian
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