Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. (credit: TechCrunch)
Mark Zuckerberg will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee next Wednesday to answer questions about the Cambridge Analytica controversy.
“This hearing will be an important opportunity to shed light on critical consumer data privacy issues and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online,” wrote committee chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and ranking Democrat Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) in a press statement. “We appreciate Mr. Zuckerberg’s willingness to testify before the committee, and we look forward to him answering our questions on April 11th.”
We learned last month that psychology professor Aleksandr Kogan had obtained data about 50 million Facebook users—allegedly under false pretenses—and then turned it over to the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge subsequently did work for the Donald Trump campaign, leading to speculation that Cambridge had used the Facebook data in a psychographic ad-targeting campaign.
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