Zuckerberg’s Crisis Response Fails to Quiet Critics
- CEO vows to investigate indicent, audit all third-party apps
- Lawmakers say he must still testify; analysts question impact
Facebook Will Tell Everyone Whose Data Was Affected by Breach, Zuckerberg Says on CNN
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Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence on the crisis over political-advertising firm Cambridge Analytica’s access to user data on the social network, outlining concrete steps the company is taking to make sure such a leak doesn’t happen again. Critics were underwhelmed.
The billionaire finally spoke in a series of media interviews, and a blog post, promising to probe the extent to which “rogue apps” are harvesting sensitive data on the social network. Zuckerberg told CNN that Facebook would inform every one of its two billion-plus users that may have gotten their personal data compromised.