Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Cambridge Analytica Incident As Facebook Fumbles

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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/zuckerberg-facebook-cambridge-analytica_us_5ab26e91e4b008c9e5f3584d

Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Cambridge Analytica Incident As Facebook Fumbles
We’ve been burned many times before. Why should we trust Facebook again?
By Ryan Grenoble
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After a riotous week full of revelations that Facebook enabled a shadowy British firm called Cambridge Analytica to harvest and exploit the personal information of more than 50 million users ― then failed to follow up on it for more than two years ― CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered an off-camera act of contrition Wednesday.

It’s been a response several days in the making, as neither Zuckerberg nor Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg offered so much as a peep earlier this week as the allegations piled up and Facebook’s stock tanked.

Both were absent from an internal briefing about the situation Tuesday (though they were never scheduled to appear in the first place). And while Zuckerberg was expected to speak at an all-hands meeting Friday, it seems that’s been bumped up a day or two.

In today’s missive, Zuckerburg acknowledged there’s been “a breach of trust” between Facebook and its users. He outlined several steps he hopes will restore public trust in the company, all aimed at clarifying which apps have access to which types of data.

“We have a responsibility to protect your data,” he wrote, “and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you.”

Notably, while Zuckerberg acknowledges Facebook made “mistakes,” his post stops short of anything resembling an apology.

In a separate post, Sandberg went a step further, stating she “deeply regrets” how Facebook handled Cambridge Analytica ― but again, it’s short of an actual apology.

“We have a responsibility to protect your data,” she wrote, “and if we can’t, then we don’t deserve to serve you.”
Ryan Grenoble
National Reporter, HuffPost

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1. Facebook is clueless...this is not a data breach

March 16, 2018

Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook
By Paul Grewal, VP & Deputy General Counsel

Update on March 17, 2018, 9:50 AM PT: The claim that this is a data breach is completely false. Aleksandr Kogan requested and gained access to information from users who chose to sign up to his app, and everyone involved gave their consent. People knowingly provided their information, no systems were infiltrated, and no passwords or sensitive pieces of information were stolen or hacked.

https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/suspending-cambridge-analytica/?sf185090008=1

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2. Exactly. FB knew what it getting into when they did business with Cambridge.