Facebook whistleblower gives evidence to MPs on Cambridge Analytica row - as it happened

Sandy Parakilas, who has claimed covert harvesting was routine at the social network, told the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee Facebook did not do enough to prevent, identify - or act upon - data breaches

• 'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine

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Thank you for following the blog. I'm going to leave you with a summary of the salient points from Sandy Parakilas's evidence on Facebook to the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee:

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Labour MP Julie Elliott asks Parakilas if he thinks Facebook understands the enormity of the problem here?

He says they do not, otherwise they would have done something quicker.