Critics focus on Facebook privacy before Zuckerberg hearings


  • TECH
  • Monday, 09 Apr 2018

FILE- In this March 29, 2018, file photo, the logo for Facebook appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. Facebook will begin alerting users whose private data may have been compromised in the Cambridge Analytica scandal starting Monday, April 9. All 2.2 billion Facebook users will receive a notice on their feeds titled “Protecting Your Information.” It will have a link to information on which Facebook apps they use and what information they have shared with those apps.(AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

A Congressional critic of Facebook Inc said lawmakers may need to consider regulating the social media giant, ahead of two days of high-profile congressional testimony by founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg. 

Meanwhile, Christopher Wylie, the former employee of Cambridge Analytica who blew the whistle on a data-privacy scandal involving the analytics firm’s role in the 2016 presidential election, said some of the information improperly harvested from tens of millions of Facebook users might be stored in Russia. 

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