If Facebook Can’t Protect User Data, ‘We Don’t Deserve to Serve You,’ Says Zuckerberg
Facebook has “responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you,” posted CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his first known public comments on allegations that political data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica misused private information…
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of more than 50 million Americans on behalf of President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign (see 1803200047). Zuckerberg has been “working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn't happen again,” he said. “The most important actions to prevent this from happening again today we have already taken years ago. But we also made mistakes, there's more to do, and we need to step up.” As founder, “at the end of the day I'm responsible for what happens on our platform,” said Zuckerberg. “I'm serious about doing what it takes to protect our community. While this specific issue involving Cambridge Analytica should no longer happen with new apps today, that doesn't change what happened in the past. We will learn from this experience to secure our platform further and make our community safer for everyone.”