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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMark Zuckerberg Addresses Cambridge Analytica Incident As Facebook Fumbles
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zuckerberg-facebook-cambridge-analytica_us_5ab26e91e4b008c9e5f3584dMark Zuckerberg Addresses Cambridge Analytica Incident As Facebook Fumbles
Weve been burned many times before. Why should we trust Facebook again?
By Ryan Grenoble
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After a riotous week full of revelations that Facebook enabled a shadowy British firm called Cambridge Analytica to harvest and exploit the personal information of more than 50 million users ― then failed to follow up on it for more than two years ― CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered an off-camera act of contrition Wednesday.
Its been a response several days in the making, as neither Zuckerberg nor Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg offered so much as a peep earlier this week as the allegations piled up and Facebooks stock tanked.
Both were absent from an internal briefing about the situation Tuesday (though they were never scheduled to appear in the first place). And while Zuckerberg was expected to speak at an all-hands meeting Friday, it seems thats been bumped up a day or two.
In todays missive, Zuckerburg acknowledged theres been a breach of trust between Facebook and its users. He outlined several steps he hopes will restore public trust in the company, all aimed at clarifying which apps have access to which types of data.
We have a responsibility to protect your data, he wrote, and if we cant then we dont deserve to serve you.
Notably, while Zuckerberg acknowledges Facebook made mistakes, his post stops short of anything resembling an apology.
In a separate post, Sandberg went a step further, stating she deeply regrets how Facebook handled Cambridge Analytica ― but again, its short of an actual apology.
We have a responsibility to protect your data, she wrote, and if we cant, then we dont deserve to serve you.
Ryan Grenoble
National Reporter, HuffPost
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Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Cambridge Analytica Incident As Facebook Fumbles (Original Post)
marble falls
Mar 2018
OP
Exactly. FB knew what it getting into when they did business with Cambridge.
marble falls
Mar 2018
#2
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)1. Facebook is clueless...this is not a data breach
March 16, 2018
Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook
By Paul Grewal, VP & Deputy General Counsel
Update on March 17, 2018, 9:50 AM PT: The claim that this is a data breach is completely false. Aleksandr Kogan requested and gained access to information from users who chose to sign up to his app, and everyone involved gave their consent. People knowingly provided their information, no systems were infiltrated, and no passwords or sensitive pieces of information were stolen or hacked.
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/suspending-cambridge-analytica/?sf185090008=1
marble falls
(57,157 posts)2. Exactly. FB knew what it getting into when they did business with Cambridge.