Apologetic Zuckerberg Offers Mea Culpa On First Day Of Hearings On Facebook Data Scandal
The man in the middle of a firestorm over privacy offered a full mea culpa at a joint hearing of two Senate committees.
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The man in the middle of a firestorm over privacy offered a full mea culpa at a joint hearing of two Senate committees.
Zuckerberg met one-on-one with a series of key lawmakers Monday, in what could be the most important stop on his apology tour.
Starting Monday, the 87 million users who might have had their data shared with Cambridge Analytica will get a detailed message on their news feeds.
Facebook made a bombshell admission Wednesday, when the company admit that most of its 2.2 billion members may have had their personal data scraped by "malicious actors."
As many as 87 million people could have had their data swept up by Cambridge Analytica, significantly more than the figure of 50 million that was widely reported at the outset of the data scandal.
In the first public statement the Facebook CEO has made on the controversy, Zuckerberg admits to mistakes involving misused data affecting more than 50 million user accounts.
Facebook may have violated an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission about the use of user data, experts suggest.
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are the two main actors in an enormous data privacy scandal that touches on the Trump campaign, 50 million Facebook users and even two presidential elections in Kenya. It's complicated, so here's a breakdown.
