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Title: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses Cambridge Analytica scandal Post by: HCK on March 23, 2018, 04:05:19 pm Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses Cambridge Analytica scandal
Here's how Zuckerberg says Facebook handled the situation with Cambridge Analytica and what the company plans to do next. It's been a few days since The New York Times released a report about Cambridge Analytica, a company that scooped up the data of more than 50 million Facebook users without their consent and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg now has something to say about what's become a huge privacy scandal for the social network. In a post on Facebook (of course), Zuckerberg outlined what the company says happened between 2007 and 2018. In short: 2007: Facebook launches a tool called Facebook Platform that let users log in to apps using Facebook — it also gave those apps access to certain user data and the data of their friends. 2013: Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan creates a personality quiz. It gets installed by a bunch of people (~300,000). Thanks to Facebook Platform, the personality quiz is able to gain access to the data of more than 50 million Faceb... Source: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses Cambridge Analytica scandal (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheIphoneBlog/~3/uV8EBTaYX0U/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-addresses-cambridge-analytica-scandal) |