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Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 03:12 AM Mar 2018

Lawmakers want Mark Zuckerberg to testify about the Facebook data breach

Policymakers want answers on what happened with Cambridge Analytica’s harvesting operation.

Lawmakers and regulators across the US and Europe are calling for investigations into Facebook amid revelations that personal data from 50 million of the social media giant’s users was secretly harvested by a data analytics firm that worked on the Trump campaign.

The public outcry over the data breach, which includes demands that Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg testify before Congress, could spark new calls for the government to monitor privacy rules and political advertising on the social media network. The company’s shares, meanwhile, are in free fall, with the company losing $40 billion in market value since Friday and wiping away billions of dollars of Zuckerberg’s personal fortune.




US lawmakers in both parties are calling for investigations, and Democrats appear to be homing in aggressively on Zuckerberg in their criticism.

“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-MN) said in a statement.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Zuckerberg on Monday demanding that Facebook list every instance in the past 10 years in which a third-party company violated Facebook’s privacy rules while collecting data on users.


More: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/19/17138784/facebook-cambridge-analytica-trump-data-breach#ampshare=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/19/17138784/facebook-cambridge-analytica-trump-data-breach
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Lawmakers want Mark Zuckerberg to testify about the Facebook data breach (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Mar 2018 OP
meanwhile trump destroys the nation and calls for him to testify? zzzzzzzzzz nt msongs Mar 2018 #1
I also wonder what they're waiting for - going up the ladder?? Rhiannon12866 Mar 2018 #2
They don't want to trip over Mueller's investigation. meadowlander Mar 2018 #4
The question will be whether during deposition they have his full attention or not aeromanKC Mar 2018 #3

Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
2. I also wonder what they're waiting for - going up the ladder??
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 03:55 AM
Mar 2018

The way people around Trump are getting hired and fired, how long is this going to last??

meadowlander

(4,358 posts)
4. They don't want to trip over Mueller's investigation.
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 05:39 AM
Mar 2018

And technically they are investigating the method of the Russian attack and how to prevent it in the future, whereas Mueller is investigating collusion and obstruction of justice.

So there is less reason for them to talk to Trump.

aeromanKC

(3,307 posts)
3. The question will be whether during deposition they have his full attention or not
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 05:25 AM
Mar 2018

And of course if it's raining outside.

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