Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook made mistakes in handling the Cambridge Analytica scandal
Mark Zuckerberg has finally responded to the furor over Facebookâs handling of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In a Facebook post, he said he is working to prevent similar abuses of user privacy. âWe have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we canât then we donât deserve to serve you,â Zuckerberg wrote in a post. âIâve been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesnât happen again. The good news is that the most important actions to prevent this from happening again today we have already taken years ago. But we also made mistakes, thereâs more to do, and we need to step up and do it.â
Though he took responsibility for Cambridge Analyticaâs abuse of the platform, he stopped short of making an apology. His remarks were Zuckerbergâs first since reports in The New York Times and The Guardian revealed the extent to which data mining firm Cambridge Analytica misused user data from as many as 50 million Facebook users.
The data was provided by a University of Cambridge psychology professor named Aleksandr Kogan, who passed it along to Cambridge Analytica in violation of Facebookâs terms of service. The move raised fresh concerns about how Facebook data can be used without consent, triggering investigations in the United States and the United Kindgom and causing the companyâs stock price to plunge.
Zuckerberg also laid out a three-step plan to rebuilding user trust. In the most significant step, Facebook will remove developer access to your data if you havenât used it in three months. The company is also performing audits on apps that had access to information similar to the data Kogan had access did in 2014, before Facebook removed developersâ ability to mine information about your friendsâ profiles.
In the end mark zuckerberg took responsibility for the misuse of user data. " I started facebook and at the end of the day i'm serious for what happens on our platform,"He wrote. " I'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community. while this specific issue involving CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA should no longer happen with new app today , change doesn't what happenedin the past. we will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone going forward."
Zuckerberg has been under mounting pressure to respond after revelations that a since-deprecated feature of Facebookâs platform product had resulted in tens of millions of user profiles from being harvested and used to target political advertising.
In a shorter post, Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg echoed the CEOâs comments. âWe know that this was a major violation of peoplesâ trust, and I deeply regret that we didnât do enough to deal with it,â she said. âWe have a responsibility to protect your data â and if we canât, then we donât deserve to serve you.â
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook made mistakes in handling the Cambridge Analytica scandal
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