Facebook to take steps to secure users' data
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a discussion at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, on June 24, 2016. PHOTO | MANDEL NGAN | AFP
What you need to know:
- Mr Zuckerberg outlined measures the company is taking to address the issue of access to private data.
Facebook founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg has taken responsibility for mishandling of data and promised to protect users' information in the wake of Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
Mr Zuckerberg outlined measures the company is taking to address the issue of access to private data.
"We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can't then we don't deserve to serve you," Mr Zuckerberg said in a statement posted on his Facebook page.
He went on: “I have been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
"The good news is that 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 and do it.”
Mr Zuckerberg said Facebook would notify users whose data was included in the set allegedly received by Cambridge Analytica as well as investigate all apps with access to Facebook data, and demand audits of any app with "suspicious activity".
