Current location:travel >>
Facebook CEO apologizes for data misuse in prepared testimony to Congress
travel7621People have gathered around
IntroductionMark Zuckerberg (Xinhua file photo/Lino De Vallier)WASHINGTON, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Facebook CEO Mark ...
Mark Zuckerberg (Xinhua file photo/Lino De Vallier)
WASHINGTON, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Congress in written testimony on Monday that he is "responsible for" not preventing the social media platform from being used for harm, including fake news, foreign interference in elections and hate speech.
"We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake," he said in the prepared testimony released by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee.
"It was my mistake, and I'm sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here," he said in the remarks he is expected to deliver in a hearing on Wednesday.
His apology came after Facebook is embroiled in a widening scandal that a British data firm called Cambridge Analytica had improperly gathered detailed Facebook information on 87 million users, up from a previous estimate of more than 50 million.
Also, Facebook revealed on Wednesday that outsiders took advantage of search tools on its platform, making it possible for them to collect personal information on most of its 2 billion users worldwide without the users' explicit permission.
This was Zuckerberg's latest apology for the personal data leak and he vowed to plug the vulnerabilities while attempting to defend himself by listing the company's measures to protect user privacy in past years.
He said Facebook had changed the entire platform in 2014 to "dramatically limit the Facebook information apps could access."
Moreover, Facebook banned Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University researcher who leaked the data to Cambridge Analytica, from using Facebook data in 2015, and certified that "they had deleted all improperly acquired data," according to Zuckerberg.
But he didn't explain why and how Cambridge Analytica still managed to misuse the personal data afterwards.
Zuckerberg pledged to limit the information the platform developers can access and they have to get users' approval.
The leaked data was said to be inappropriately used by Cambridge Analytica in activities allegedly connected with U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign in 2016.
Tags:
Reprint:Friends are welcome to share on the Internet, but please indicate the source of the article when reprinting it.“Worldly Wisdom news portal”。http://colombia.esherfc.com/html-68e999876.html
Related articles
Tom Brady watches his Las Vegas Aces team win opening game of the new WNBA season
travelTom Brady has been spotted in Las Vegas for the Aces' first win of the WNBA season amid NFL games th ...
【travel】
Read moreTennessee GOP
travelNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A bill designed to ban LGBTQ+ Pride flags in Tennessee public school classro ...
【travel】
Read morePolice hunt sweet
travelPolice are hunting the sweet-toothed thieves who stole £134,000 worth of Kinder Bueno chocolate bars ...
【travel】
Read more
Popular articles
- Nepal's top cricket star has his 8
- Children, three, manipulated into sending predators sexual pictures, report claims
- Child murderer who abducted and killed schoolboy 50 years ago dies in prison of old age
- Pakistan's Karachi bans drones due to security threats
- CEO of Brazil’s oil and gas giant Petrobras steps down following dustup over dividends
- Biden to speak at Morehouse College commencement
Latest articles
The US is wrapping up a pier to bring aid to Gaza by sea. But danger and uncertainty lie ahead
Headteacher insists 12
Closing prices for crude oil, gold and other commodities
Six winners of the Mail's Inspirational Women Awards are honoured in glittering ceremony in London
Ant McPartlin shows off never
USPS commits to rerouting Reno
LINKS
- China's Dongfeng NEV brand Voyah makes debut in Italy
- Highpoint, Melbourne: Australia is rocked by ANOTHER shopping centre stabbing
- The easily missed detail in the photos of Queen Mary's children
- Bucks open their playoff run without Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Tesla's new mega factory project in Shanghai to start construction
- Los Angeles sheriff's deputy dies months after being injured in fire inside mobile gun range
- China to raise gasoline, diesel retail prices
- Iran's president holds talks with Pakistani premier after arrival in Islamabad for a 3
- Vietnam police arrest assistant to National Assembly chairman — Radio Free Asia
- Prosecutors to make history with opening statements in hush money case against Trump