Facebook runs UK, US newspaper ads apologising for data scandal
"We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can't we don't deserve it," he said.The ads ran in prominent positions in six British nationals, including the best-selling Mail on Sunday, The Sunday Times and The Observer – which helped break the story – as well as the New York Times, Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Zuckerberg explained there was a quiz developed by a university researcher "that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014".
"This was a breach of trust, and I'm sorry we didn't do more at the time. We're now taking steps to make sure this doesn't happen again," he said.
The ad reflects public statements Zuckerberg made last week after the row prompted investigations in Europe and the United States, and sent Facebook's share price plunging.
He repeated that the social media giant had changed the rules on apps so no such data breach could happen again.
We will ban them
"We're also investigating every single app that had access to large amounts of data before we fixed this. We expect there are others," he wrote."
Facebook took out full page ads in the NYT, WSJ, WashPost, and 6 UK papers today https://t.co/kMA822kTpU pic.twitter.com/CUEYwyWuTT
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 25, 2018
It too has blamed the University of Cambridge researcher Alexsandr Kogan, for any potential breach of data rules.
Kogan created a lifestyle quiz app for Facebook which was downloaded by 270,000 people but allowed access to tens of millions of their contacts.
Facebook says he passed this to Cambridge Analytica without its knowledge. Kogan says he is being made a scapegoat.
Source: AFP via I-Net Bridge.
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