everything that could go wrong with facebook and everything it seemed had been going wrong the with facebook they had not been telling us about. by the end of 2015, facebook no longer allowed developers to take information about users friends. and it asked kogan wiley of cambridge analytica to get rid of the data they had obtained. but facebook did not warn users or publicly admit what happened until wily blue the whistle two years later leaking to britain s guardian newspaper and the new york times. do you think there could be other breeches like the ones we saw in cambridge analytica where tens of millions of people s data was accessed improperly? well, we re doing a thorough look. that is only one app. there are many apps on the platform. what the executives were hesitant to say was that all that data that was taken could be anywhere. one of the things to keep in mind about the data harvested is we don t know what happened to it. once data escapes a platform. there is no
with facebook they had not been telling us about. by the end of 2015, facebook no longer allowed developers to take information about users friends. and it asked kogan wiley of cambridge analytica to get raid of the data they had obtained. but facebook did not warn users or publicly admit what happened until wiley blue the whiels two years later leaking to britain s guardian newspaper and the new york times. do you think there could be other breeches like the ones we saw in cambridge analytica where tens of millions of people s data was accessed improperly. well we re doing a thorough look that is only one app there are many apps on the platform. what the executives were hesitant to say was that all that data that was taken could be anywhere. one of the things to keep in mind about the data harvested is we don t know what happened to it once data escapes a platform there is no putting the tooth paste back in the tube you can t clean up a data spill.
the ceo of bp was the right person to testify before congress to explain why there were no blowout preventers that worked. we had a big oil spill. now we have a huge data spill, which has occurred. and he is the ceo of facebook and he has to come because no one understands the algorithms of facebook better than him. he knows how they use to gather information, and he should also know how they use to protect information from being leaked. and so he should explain what are those algorithms and how were they penetrated and other penetrations of the privacy of americans going on right now because those safeguards are not in place. if you if you had a chance to have him at a hearing there, what questions would you ask? well, i would want to know when they knew that the privacy of americans was being