Zuckerberg Apology Fails To Quiet Facebook Storm
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published March 23, 2018 | 09:35 AM
San Francisco, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Mar, 2018 ) ::A public apology by Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg failed Thursday to quell outrage over the hijacking of personal data from millions of people, as critics demanded that the social media giant go much further to protect user privacy.
Speaking out for the first time about the harvesting of Facebook user data by a British firm linked to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, Zuckerberg admitted Wednesday to betraying the trust of its two billion users, and promised to "step up." Vowing to stop data leaking to outside developers and to give users more control over their information, Zuckerberg also said he was ready to testify before US lawmakers -- which a powerful congressional committee promptly asked him to do.
With pressure ratcheting up on the 33-year-old CEO over a scandal that has wiped some $60 billion off Facebook's value, the initial response suggested his promise of self-regulation had failed to convince.
"Frankly I don't think those changes go far enough," Britain's culture and digital minister Matt Hancock told the BBC. "It shouldn't be for a company to decide what is the appropriate balance between privacy and innovation and use of data," he said.
"The big tech companies need to abide by the law and we are strengthening the law." In Brussels, European leaders were sending the same message as they prepared to push for tougher safeguards on personal data online, while Israel became the latest country to launch an investigation into Facebook.
The data scandal erupted at the weekend when a whistleblower revealed that British consultant Cambridge Analytica (CA) had created psychological profiles on 50 million Facebook users via a personality prediction app, developed by a researcher named Aleksandr Kogan.
The app was downloaded by 270,000 people, but also scooped up their friends' data without consent -- as was possible under Facebook's rules at the time.
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