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by Michael Mathes and Rob Lever © Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg took personal responsibility Tuesday for the leak of data on tens of millions of its users, while warning of an “arms race” against Russian disinformation during a high stakes face-to-face with US lawmakers. In his first formal congressional appearance, the Facebook founder and chief executive sought to quell the storm over privacy and security lapses at the […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s appearances before US lawmakers this week to address privacy and security lapses at his company promise to be some of the most anticipated congressional testimony in years. But the 33-year-old billionaire’s appearances have had their fair share of historic and sensational predecessors, some that brought virtually unknown Americans into the national spotlight, and others that have impacted presidential ambitions. Here are four modern-day congressional hearings that […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg placed the blame for privacy and security lapses at the world’s largest social network squarely on himself as he girded Monday for appearances this week on Capitol Hill before angry lawmakers. In prepared remarks released by a congressional panel, Zuckerberg admitted he was too idealistic and failed to grasp how the platform — used by two billion people — could be abused and manipulated. The 33-year-old […]
by Rob Lever Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Amid a firestorm over Facebook’s data privacy scandal, Mark Zuckerberg appears before US lawmakers this week with mounting pressure for new regulations for social media platforms. The 33-year-old chief executive is expected to face a grilling before a Senate panel Tuesday, and follow up with an appearance in the House of Representatives the following day. His appearance comes amid a raft of inquiries on […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippines had the second most number of Facebook accounts that may have been improperly accessed by British political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica. In a post, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, said 1,175,870 accounts may have been affected, only next to the 70, 632,350 that may have been affected in the United States. Schroepfer said the Philippines was followed by Indonesia (1,096,666 accounts), the United Kingdom (1,079,001), Mexico (789,.880), Canada (622,161), and […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s justice minister on Thursday accused Facebook of unethical behavior and said the social media giant should face a strong European response over a huge data leak involving millions of more users than initially thought. “Facebook is a network of intransparency,” Katarina Barley said. “Ethical convictions have fallen victim to commercial interests.” She called for “a clear reaction from European countries” over the company’s misuse of private information. Some 310,000 […]
by Rob Lever Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States – Facebook said Wednesday personal data on as many as 87 million users was improperly shared with British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The new figure eclipses a previous estimate of 50 million in a further embarrassment to the social network roiled by a privacy scandal. The announcement came as Facebook unveiled clearer terms of service to enable users to better understand data sharing, and as a congressional […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Facebook will likely need “a few years” to fix the problems uncovered by the revelations on the hijacking of private user data, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview released Monday. Speaking to the news site Vox, Zuckerberg defended the company’s business model and shot back at criticism of the social networking giant from Apple CEO Tim Cook last week. Zuckerberg maintained that one of Facebook’s problems was that […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook troubles worsened late Thursday with the leak of a two-year-old memo from a high-ranking executive hinting that the social network was determined to grow despite risks to users. The 2016 memo published by news website Buzzfeed was written by veteran Facebook executive Andrew Bozworth, considered part of chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s inner circle. “The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that […]
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — A Brazilian judge on Wednesday ordered Facebook to remove fake news posted about slain black rights’ activist Marielle Franco. Judge Jorge Jansen Counago Novelle, in Rio de Janeiro, gave the US-based giant 24 hours to pull “publications of false information with criminal content on the councilwoman Marielle Franco,” the court said in a statement. Facebook responded in a statement that it would comply and “remove the specific URL content […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Facebook on Wednesday launched a fresh effort to quell the firestorm over the hijacking of personal data, unveiling new privacy tools and settings aiming to give users more control over how their information is shared. The new features follow fierce criticism of the social network giant after it was revealed that the personal data of tens of millions of users was harvested by a British firm linked to Donald Trump’s […]
by Rob Lever Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States – A US consumer protection agency said Monday it has opened an investigation into Facebook’s privacy practices, another blow to the social network, which is struggling to deal with a growing crisis on misuse of private data. The Federal Trade Commission confirmed news reports from last week that it had opened an inquiry over the harvesting of data on tens of millions of Facebook users by the […]
