Senate Judiciary, Commerce to Host Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Tuesday
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify to the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees at 2:15 p.m. Tuesday in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center. “With all of the data exchanged over Facebook and other platforms, users deserve to know how their…
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information is shared and secured,” Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Wednesday evening. Commerce's Ed Markey, D-Mass., responded Wednesday to Facebook's announcement that as many as 87 million users could have had their data compromised in the Cambridge Analytica controversy. “The more we learn, the clearer it is that this was an avalanche of privacy violations that strike at the core of one of our most precious American values -- the right to privacy,” Markey said. More than 200,000 groups like Demand Progress and individuals signed a pledge demanding Facebook notify all affected users. Zuckerberg had agreed to appear before the House Commerce Committee Wednesday (see 1804040048).