Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing regarding the company’s use and protection of user data on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 11, 2018. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
Mark Zuckerberg, under stern questioning by US lawmakers, said Facebook Inc collects information on consumers who aren’t registered as users, acknowledging something that’s been reported but not publicly spelled out by the company.
“In general we collect data on people who are not signed up for Facebook for security purposes,” Zuckerberg said Wednesday in a hearing about the social network’s privacy practices in Washington before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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