a two week extension to wind down two apps. this is coming out as facebook continues to investigate how and who misused facebook user data. yeah, there was abuse. that s why in 2014 we took the step of fundamentally changing how the platform works. when mark zuckerberg said the social network said they shut down apps that used information, he didn t say this. six developers were given an extension, ability to keep gathering data from facebook users up to an additional six months. among them, the russian internet giant mail.ru which ran hundreds of apps on facebook. what does that mean to you? michael carpenter, former deputy assistant secretary of defense covering russia. what this means is that all data that facebook users share through this agreement with
step of fundamentally changing how the platform works. when mark zuckerberg told the congressional committee that facebook shut down apps that gathered user s personal information. did he not mention had this. 61 app developers that facebook now says were given an extension. the ability to keep gathering data from facebook users for up to an additional six months. among them, the russian internet giant, mail.ru, which ran hundreds of apps on facebook. what does that mean to you? michael carpenter is the former deputy assistant secretary of defense covering russia. what it means that all data that facebook users shared through this agreement with mail.ru is now available to the russian intelligence services. all of it. and that is incredibly troubling. the facebook data privacy breech that gave companies the ability to harvest, use and target your personal facebook
developers. they didn t have any real vetting in place for a long time for those developers. not only that, they wouldn t just pass the data about you the user who authorized the application, the person using the app but they would also get the developer get data on the friend of the user. ali, if i was using an app and you and i were friends i could pass your data along to the developer, too, even though you hadn t explicitly said you wanted to do that. the real issue here is they need to change how their platform works. they have made some important changes already. they reduced or limited the friend permissions so you can do that anymore. and they are taking more proactive steps but for a long time they had a bad architecture which caused this problem to happen. sanny, thanks for talking to us, giving us an insider s perspective as to how this works from inside facebook. a former facebook platform operations manager. one question not yet answered in this discussion is this privacy
consent to place all their questions in the record. so these are a series of just yes, no questions. do you think you have a moral responsibility to run a platform that protects our democracy? congresswoman, yes. have you users of facebook who were caught up in the cambridge analytica debacle been notified? we re starting to notify people this week. we started monday, i believe. will facebook offer to all of its users a blanket opt-in to share their privacy data with any third party users? that s how our platform works. you have to opt in to sign in to any app before you use it. let me just add it is a minefield in order to do that. and you have to make it
about what it means to hand over data about private users to a government. they have to think about the sort of slippery slope aspect of this and whether or not other governments might come to facebook and say, okay, if you can hand that over to the u.s. goth, maybe you can hand this over to us in a different country. but no question that the immense, i think, public scrutiny and congressional pressure played a role here. have they said, facebook, have they said that they regret the way the platform was drawn into all this or saying, look, anyone can buy an ad, don t blame us? i think if you read between the lines of what ceo mark zuckerberg said today what you can hear is him saying we regret the fact that back actors were able to use this platform in that way and that we understand that we need to take steps to tweak the platform to come up with new guidelines for how that platform works. i don t think he s fundamentally saying we regret creating a platform where people can buy t