Attorneys general seek answers from Zuckerberg
BPC Staff Mar 27, 2018 | 4:17 pm
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155 wordsAll Latest News, Arts and Culture, Government Policy and LawIowa Attorney General Tom Miller on Monday joined a bipartisan coalition of 37 state and territory attorneys general in sending a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers about the company’s business practices and privacy protections. Data from at least 50 million Facebook profiles may have been misused by third-party software developers. “Facebook apparently contends that this incident of harvesting tens of millions of profiles was not the result of a technical data breach,” the officials said in the letter. “However, the reports allege that Facebook gave away the personal data of users who never authorized these developers to obtain it, and relied on terms of service and settings that were confusing and perhaps misleading to its users.” Among the questions posed is whether Facebook had protective safeguards in place, including audits, to ensure developers were not misusing the Facebook user’s data, and whether Facebook monitored the use of the data by third-party developers.