We didn’t take a broad enough view of what our responsibility is, and that was a huge mistake. That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, hate speech, in addition to developers and data privacy. “We didn’t focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking through how people could use these tools to do harm as well. In a press conference April 4, Zuckerberg said the company, at first, did not have a wide enough view on how the network could potentially be abused. Cambridge Analytica says the company has done nothing wrong and, so far, has appeared to cooperate with investigations. Facebook says users impacted by the data misuse will be notified, but added that the list of security changes announced this week is only the start, with more adjustments coming over the next few weeks. On April 4, Facebook shared a draft of an updated data policy while launching several limitations to third-party app use (one of which broke Tinder).
Facebook has since banned the analytics firm and the parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories and launched wide-spread changes to data privacy and third-party app access, but with Cambridge Analytica handling social media campaigns related to President Donald Trump’s presidential bid and the U.K.’s Brexit vote, the scrutiny will likely continue for some time.Īfter Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence and shared a post detailing what happened, several of those changes have already been set in motion. It’s no secret that Facebook tracks user data, as anyone who has seen an ad related to a topic they just posted about can attest - but the alleged illegal data mining of as many as 87 million users that was acquired by Cambridge Analytica is raising new concerns about the security of personal information stored on Facebook.
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