Senators press Zuckerberg over risks from China developers

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The latest Tweet by Bloomberg states, 'Two US senators expressed their concern to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the risk of developers in China and Russia having access to user data ...' Two US Senators Expressed Their Concern to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the Risk of ... - Latest Tweet by Bloomberg.

Senators press Zuckerberg over risks from China developers

The senators said their staff had held meetings with company executives to determine who, exactly, could get at the data, and what Facebook planned to about it, particularly with regards to protecting users’ information.

Senators press Zuckerberg over risk from Facebook developers in China, Russia

Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) pressed Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg over documents showing that developers in “high-risk” countries such as China and Russia have access to users’ data.  In a letter sent on Monday, the senior members of the Senate Intelligence Committee cited new evidence, released as part of litigation,…

Senate committee presses Meta over data access by developers in "high risk" countries, per 2018 app audit

Facebook’s murky history of letting third party apps help themselves to user data which you may recall blew up into a major global privacy scandal back in 2018 (aka, Cambridge Analytica), gouging the company’s stock price, leading to its founder being hauled in front of Congress — and finally, in mid 2019, to a $5BN settlement with the FTC over what sometimes got euphemistically reported as ‘privacy lapses’ — appears to be coming back to haunt i…

Warner, Rubio Question Facebook's Zuckerberg Over China's Access to User Data

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter (pdf) to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, questioning him about crucial data Meta’s Facebook platform shared with developers in China in recent years.

US senators seek answers from Meta on whether user data was accessed by China, Russia and others

Top US lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee want answers from Meta on a newly disclosed internal investigation it conducted in 2018 that found tens of thousands of software developers in China, Russia and other "high-risk" countries may have had access to detailed Facebook user data before the company clamped down on that access beginning in 2014.