Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg swapped his trademark T-shirt and jeans for a dark suit and a purple tie as he met US lawmakers to apologize for the social network's misuse of its members' data and to head off possible regulation. In the wake of the scandal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has voiced his concerns over the data leak.
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg swapped his trademark T-shirt and jeans for a dark suit and a purple tie as he met US lawmakers to apologize for the social network's misuse of its members' data and to head off possible regulation. In the wake of the scandal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has voiced his concerns over the data leak.
It is believed that the PM wants that the data-sharing servers be situated in India. For the government, this issue is a ‘top priority’. At the moment, some of the top companies including Google, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have their servers located internationally, and access to them is regulated only by US laws.
In conversation with the Times of India, a top source said, “The PM said that servers that house data of millions of users should be located within India. The issue was thereafter discussed within the IT ministry which carried out a thorough review last week.”
During the congressional hearing, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he wants to ensure protection of integrity of elections, mentioning that he knows the importance of the upcoming polls in countries, including India, Hungary and Brazil. He noted that there are several important elections in 2018 and his company wants to ensure protection of integrity in these elections.
The founder of the social media giant publicly apologized for his company's errors in failing to better protect the personal information of its millions of users, a controversy that has brought a flood of bad publicity and sent the company's stock value plunging. He seemed to achieve a measure of success: Facebook shares surged 4.5 percent for the day, the biggest gain in two years.
Zuckerberg told the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees that he has not been personally interviewed by Mueller's team, but "I know we're working with them." He offered no details, citing a concern about confidentiality rules of the investigation.
Earlier this year, Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies in a plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election through a social media propaganda effort that included online ad purchases using US aliases and politicking on U.S. soil. A number of the Russian ads were on Facebook.
During the hearing, Zuckerberg said it had been "clearly a mistake" to believe the data-mining company Cambridge Analytica had deleted user data that it had harvested in an attempt to sway elections. He said Facebook had considered the data collection "a closed case" because it thought the information had been discarded. Facebook also didn't alert the Federal Trade Commission, Zuckerberg said, and he assured senators the company would handle the situation differently.
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