Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg may be in deeper troubles as he has been asked to testify in the alleged FB data theft of 50 million Facebook users for manipulating elections which made Trump as President of the US.
In the latest development, Trump-affiliated data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica has been suspended, while government authorities are investigating the case. The Cambridge's board of directors suspended CEO Alexander Nix pending an investigation after Nix boasted of various unsavoury services to an undercover reporter for Britain's Channel 4 News.
The case was exposed by Channel 4 News which broadcast clips on March 20 that also show Nix saying his data-mining firm played a major role in securing Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential elections.
According to Nix, the firm handled "all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting" and said Cambridge used emails with a "self-destruct timer" to make its role more difficult to trace. He added, "There's no evidence, there's no paper trail, there's nothing."
The chairman of the U.K. parliamentary media committee, Damian Collins, said his group has repeatedly asked Facebook how it uses data. He said Facebook officials "have been misleading to the committee."The committee summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify.
Collins wrote to Zuckerberg: "It is now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process. Given your commitment at the start of the New Year to 'fixing' Facebook, I hope that this representative will be you."
In another development, EU is planning to levy special digital tax on Google and FB and such other companies dealing in digital.
Source: http://cablequest.org/index.php/news/international-news/item/12461-massive-facebook-data-theft-shocks-the-world-fb-founder-zuckerberg-summoned-to-testify
The case was exposed by Channel 4 News which broadcast clips on March 20 that also show Nix saying his data-mining firm played a major role in securing Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential elections.
According to Nix, the firm handled "all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting" and said Cambridge used emails with a "self-destruct timer" to make its role more difficult to trace. He added, "There's no evidence, there's no paper trail, there's nothing."
The chairman of the U.K. parliamentary media committee, Damian Collins, said his group has repeatedly asked Facebook how it uses data. He said Facebook officials "have been misleading to the committee."The committee summoned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify.
Collins wrote to Zuckerberg: "It is now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process. Given your commitment at the start of the New Year to 'fixing' Facebook, I hope that this representative will be you."
In another development, EU is planning to levy special digital tax on Google and FB and such other companies dealing in digital.
Source: http://cablequest.org/index.php/news/international-news/item/12461-massive-facebook-data-theft-shocks-the-world-fb-founder-zuckerberg-summoned-to-testify
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