Days after the New York Times reported about the misuse by political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica of the personal information of 50 million Facebook users in 2014, Facebook chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg finally spoke about the issue.
People worldwide had been waiting for Zuckerberg’s response to the issue, which broke out on Friday last week.
He talked about the issue in a lengthy Facebook post and interviews with NYT and Recode.
Zuckerberg laid down what the social network will do in the aftermath of the privacy breach.
Open to Testifying Before Congress
When asked by Recode if he would testify before the U.S. Congress on the Cambridge Analytica issue, Zuckerberg said he is “open” to it.
“I’m open to doing that. We actually do this fairly regularly. There are lots of different topics that Congress needs and wants to know about, and the way that we approach it is that our responsibility is to make sure that they have access to all of the information that they need to have.”
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