Mozilla, Tesla, other companies distances them from Facebook

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The leak of data from 50 million Facebook users to the political consulting firm prompted Mozilla to examine Facebook’s default privacy policies, which can give third-party apps access to your profile data and activities. Such a tool was deployed for the first time in the French elections in 2017. There’s Eventbrite for events, Letgo for buying and selling stuff, Peanut for moms to connect, Meetup to find and meet like-minded people, GoFundMe for raising money and Twitter, or, gasp, your local newspaper’s website for the news.

Kogan said he has been scapegoated by both Cambridge and Facebook. This is for the first time that Zuckerberg has publicly talked about Facebook being allegedly used for influencing polls. Probably going to college, getting good grades, making meaningful connections with your peers and professors, but nothing worth posting about, which can easily make someone feel like they’re behind, or their life isn’t as good as someone else’s. So it’s time to get rid of them. And we’re not gonna make that mistake again. Every year we howl about our privacy being eroded. “It is time. #deletefacebook”, Acton, who left Facebook previous year, wrote in a tweet that has since been retweeted 24,000 times. Voter-profiling outfits in India are dime a dozen, and many of them claim with varying degrees of certainty to be able to predict the outcome of an election or sway voter sentiments. “There’s a big election in Brazil”.

Albright explained: “In reality, Facebook users have the exact opposite ability to control what is passively shared about them - meaning the information and metadata others can extract”.

A Facebook spokeswoman said she didn’t “have anything to share” about the meeting.

Zuckerberg said he is sorry for allowing Cambridge Analytica to gain access to the personal data of almost 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge.

“I am happy if they reinforce their architecture, they are most welcome”, he said.

Zuckerberg wasn’t the only Facebook executive to keep a low-profile, according to The Daily Beast, which reported COO Sheryl Sandberg also was a no-show for the meeting.

The revelations around Cambridge Analytica’s mass harvesting of data from millions of Facebook profiles has shaken the social media company’s already fragile foundations.

Responding to a question, Zuckerberg said he is not sure if Facebook should be regulated. “And now it’s everything I don’t – everything is an advertisement, the algorithm feeds me everything it thinks I want and nothing I actually do”. For instance, if you searched something on Google recently, next thing you know, you’ll see an ad about it.

Facebook learned in 2015 that Cambridge Analytica had obtained the data, and asked the consultancy to destroy it. Various U.S. congressional committees are also seeking answers, although Democrats and Republicans have disagreed on what steps to take.

Australian Communications Minister Mitch Fifield said Facebook needs to take responsibility for the breach and confirmed he was seeking advice from online safety body eSafety on the best course of action.

In the email, Kogan says that he hadn’t been interviewed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation or any other law enforcement agencies, but would have no problem doing so.