{"id":4435,"date":"2018-04-09T12:27:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=8cae821d6c4a0953f65ce832a56cda08"},"modified":"2018-04-09T12:27:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T16:27:02","slug":"it-was-my-mistake-mark-zuckerberg-apologizes-says-facebook-did-not-do-enough-to-prevent-data-misuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/09\/it-was-my-mistake-mark-zuckerberg-apologizes-says-facebook-did-not-do-enough-to-prevent-data-misuse\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was my mistake\u2019: Mark Zuckerberg apologizes, says Facebook did not do enough to prevent data misuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg told Congress in written testimony released on Monday that the social media network did not do enough to prevent misuse of data and apologized.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear now that we didn\u2019t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm&#8230;\u201d he said in testimony released by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee. \u201cThat goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear before two Congressional committees on Tuesday and Wednesday, to answer questions about Facebook\u2019s admission that the personal information of up to 87 million users, mostly in the United States, may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/technology\/personal-tech\/did-cambridge-analytica-get-your-data-youll-know-soon\">Did Cambridge Analytica get your Facebook data? You\u2019ll know today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/technology\/facebooks-sandberg-says-a-few-advertisers-paused-spending\">A \u2018few\u2019 Facebook advertisers have paused spending, says Sheryl Sandberg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/technology\/personal-tech\/facebook-says-data-on-87-million-people-may-have-been-shared-with-cambridge-analytica\">Facebook says data on 87 million people, including 620,000 Canadians, improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake,\u201d his testimony continued. \u201cIt was my mistake, and I\u2019m sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I\u2019m responsible for what happens here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook said on Sunday the company plans to begin telling affected users on Monday. The company\u2019s data practices are under investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.<br \/>\nZuckerberg also said that Facebook\u2019s major investments in security \u201cwill significantly impact our profitability going forward.\u201d Facebook shares were up 1.7 per cent in midday trading.<\/p>\n<p>London-based Cambridge Analytica, which counts U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign among its past clients, has disputed Facebook\u2019s estimate of the number of affected users.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Facebook backed proposed legislation requiring social media sites to disclose the identities of buyers of online political campaign ads and introduced a new verification process for people buying \u201cissue\u201d ads, which do not endorse any candidate but have been used to exploit divisive subjects such as gun laws or racism.<\/p>\n<p>The steps are designed to deter online information warfare and election meddling that U.S. authorities have accused Russia of pursuing, Zuckerberg said on Friday. Moscow has denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg\u2019s testimony said the company was \u201ctoo slow to spot and respond to Russian interference, and we\u2019re working hard to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He vowed to make improvements, adding it would take time, but said he was \u201ccommitted to getting it right.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuckerberg also said in written testimony to Congress that Facebook&#8217;s major investments in security &#8216;will significantly impact our profitability going forward&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4451,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4435\/revisions\/4451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}