Over the weekend, entreaties for the social-media giant to take responsibility evolved into calls for chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg to appear in front of lawmakers. “They say ‘trust us.’ Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before Senate Judiciary.’’ Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey also separately launched an investigation. Afterward, the professor violated Facebook’s terms when he passed along that data to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook found out about the breach in 2015, shut down the professor’s access and asked Cambridge Analytica to certify that it had deleted the user data. Menlo Park, California-based Facebook no longer allows app developers to ask for access to data on users’ friends.

Source: Mint March 19, 2018 06:11 UTC