Zuckerberg put on back foot as House grills Facebook CEO over user tracking
by David Smith in Washington from Technology | The Guardian on (#3MGC9)
In his second day on Capitol Hill, Zuckerberg says his own data was handed to Cambridge Analytica
The Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, was given a rougher ride on his second day of congressional testimony on Wednesday as he faced sharp questions about the tech giant's ability to track its users' movements, shopping habits and browsing histories and was at one stage compared to J Edgar Hoover.
During five hours of testimony, the billionaire entrepreneur revealed that his own personal information was among that handed over to the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which harvested the data of up to 87 million Facebook users without their permission.
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