Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Vows to Bolster Privacy Amid Cambridge Analytica Crisis
This has to be recognized as part of their business model and not just a one-off problem.”
In 2013, Aleksandr Kogan, a Cambridge University researcher, created a personality quiz app that about 300,000 people installed, Mr. Zuckerberg wrote.
By SHEERA FRENKEL and KEVIN ROOSEMARCH 21, 2018
He also said the company would restrict third-party developers’ access to data on the social network.
“These actions would prevent any app like Kogan’s from being able to access so much data today,” he wrote.
In 2015, The Guardian reported on Mr. Kogan, who had by then shared his data
and findings with Cambridge Analytica, which used the material to target American voters during the 2016 campaign
“You need to come to Congress and testify to this under oath,” Senator Ed Markey,
Democrat of Massachusetts, tweeted in response to Mr. Zuckerberg’s post.
