Posted on 03/25/2018 8:43:28 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has taken out a full page ad in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and six UK papers today to apologize Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to CNN’s Brian Stelter.
The ad starts in bold letters, saying:
“We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t, we don’t deserve it.”
The ad was published on Sunday, following Zuck’s first public acknowledgement of the issue on Facebook and a subsequent media tour earlier this week.
Congress has also put Mark Zuckerberg on notice to potentially come speak with them, with Senator Kennedy of Louisiana encouraging Zuck to “do the common sense thing and roll up his sleeves and take a meaningful amount of time talking to [them].”
For those of you still unsure what’s going on with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, i you can see a full play-by-play here.
Here’s the full transcript from the print ad:
We have a responsibility to protect your information. If we can’t, we don’t deserve it.
You may have heard about a quiz app built 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.
We’ve already stopped apps like this from getting so much information. Now we’re limiting the data apps get when you sign in using Facebook.
We’re also investigating every single app that had access to large amounts of data before we fixed this. We expect there are others. And when we find them, we will ban them and tell everyone affected.
Finally, we’ll remind you of which apps you’ve given access to your information — so you can shut off the ones you don’t want anymore.
Thank you for believing in this community. I promise to do better for you.
Mark Zuckerberg
If Cambridge Analytical had been hired by Cankles and Cankles won we would be hearing how brilliant she was to use them.
“I think this is the beginning of the end for Facebook,”
Well, if they do, they will leave the City of Menlo Park, CA short a bunch of tax revenue and a slew of empty buildings. They made the former Sun Microsystems HQ ( affectionately known by it’s architecture as “Sun Quentin”their flagship building, and they took half of the old Raychem property across the road, tore down all the plant structures there, and built three or four new world-class buildings on it. It would also give San Francisco real estate a huge hit, because that’s where most of their employees live in $4,000. a month studio apartments.
I’m sorry... that I got caught...
It's just a web page.
You may have heard about a quiz app built 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.
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The quiz app used facebooks own APIs to retrieve user information. That’s not a leak. That’s intended functionality.
Facebook is all about selling our personal information to highest bidder. Who is he trying to kid?
..poor Zuck, he sold out his golden goose
Who in their right mind thought FB was NOT collecting, analyzing, selling, and providing to the government everything on FB??
Raise you hand if you’re stupid. Go ahead, don’t be embarrassed for being a moron. We’re here to help.
This amounts to a bribe paid to the newspapers to perhaps tone down their narrative on FB. Nothing has to be explicitly stated except it's the old don't bite the hand that feeds you methodology. Much like those absurdly high speaking fees Clinton took in from places like Goldman Sachs. Or all those generous payments to the Clinton Foundation. They all amount to "legal bribery".
LOL!!! That’s the problem with the information they retrieved. It made Hillary Clinton think she could win a national election, because the info came from a class of idiots!
Facebook makes money selling private information.
So what is he saying, Facebook will no longer gather and sell information?
Rhetorical question because we know that is not going to happen.
“We have a responsibility to get Democrats elected...”
I think this is the beginning of the end for Facebook, it will go the way of MySpace, and something else will come up and replace it.
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Start typing “how to close your” on Google and the 2nd suggested autocomplete is “how to close your Facebook account”.
Because he’s a Shylock.
Yup. Sorry fixes everything.
“It made Hillary Clinton think she could win a national election, because the info came from a class of idiots!”
LOL! “Really, Mrs. Clinton. They all LOVE you!”
Yes, but the problem for them is that they believe it is whom you know, rather than what you know, that matters.
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