‘We don’t sell people’s data,’ says Facebook’s Zuckerberg


  • TECH
  • Friday, 25 Jan 2019

A picture taken on January 24, 2019 shows the Facebook booth during the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, eastern Switzerland. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg on Jan 24 renewed his defence of the social network’s business, arguing that targeting ads based on interests was different from selling people’s data. 

“If we’re committed to serving everyone, then we need a service that is affordable to everyone,” Zuckerberg said in an opinion piece published in the Wall Street Journal

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