Facebook under fire from US lawmakers

[Jamie McKane]

Facebook under fire from US lawmakers

Facebook Inc. is coming under fire from top U.S. lawmakers with the clout to regulate the social media powerhouse after the company revealed it had data-sharing partnerships with four Chinese consumer-device makers, including Huawei Technologies Co.

The leaders of the House and Senate commerce panels on Wednesday chastised Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg for keeping silent about the partnerships when asked at hearings in April about third parties that might be receiving users’ personal data from the company.

[Bloomberg]

 

[Polymathic]

This may actually cause the company to be broken up.

 

[Pox]

So did the Zuck lie to Congress or did they not specifically ask him if they gave data to anyone else?

Either way it seems like Facebook just hands out data to anyone who can pay for it. Which honestly doesn't surprise me.