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11-27-2018, 07:55 PM
Social media firm claims no breach was found after it carried out investigation
A Facebook engineer warned the company in 2014 that users apparently based in Russia were scooping vast amounts of data from the site on a daily basis, lawmakers from nine countries have been told, in heated exchanges about whether the social media company poses a threat to democracy.
Facebook’s representative, Richard Allan, often looked uncomfortable during hours of questioning by members of the House of Commons (https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/3a4aa6e1-058c-4c88-9648-b94b26ebcef5), where he once sat as a Liberal Democrat MP, and parliamentarians from eight other countries. An empty seat was left for th e company’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, underlining the committee’s frustration about his refusal to appear.
Continue reading... (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/27/facebook-warned-apparent-russian-data-trawl-2014-commons-told)
A Facebook engineer warned the company in 2014 that users apparently based in Russia were scooping vast amounts of data from the site on a daily basis, lawmakers from nine countries have been told, in heated exchanges about whether the social media company poses a threat to democracy.
Facebook’s representative, Richard Allan, often looked uncomfortable during hours of questioning by members of the House of Commons (https://parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/3a4aa6e1-058c-4c88-9648-b94b26ebcef5), where he once sat as a Liberal Democrat MP, and parliamentarians from eight other countries. An empty seat was left for th e company’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, underlining the committee’s frustration about his refusal to appear.
Continue reading... (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/27/facebook-warned-apparent-russian-data-trawl-2014-commons-told)