The Cambridge Analytica scandal has not deeply affected Facebook, the social networking site's CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during the Congressional hearing on Wednesday.
Facebook has not increased in a significant increase in the number of users deactivating their accounts ever since the data breach scandal erupted last month.
As a result of the scandal, Facebook is going to put in place a tool that will help users decide what kind of privacy settings they require.
"We have had a lot of these controls in place for years," Zuckerberg told lawmakers. "The GDPR(General Data Protection Regulation) requires us to do a few more things, and we're going to extend that to the world," he said
The GDPR is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy.
As with the Senate hearing, Zuckerberg apologised profusely for the recent data leak and admitted that the company did not do enough to prevent data from being used for harm. “We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I am sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and, at the end of the day, I am responsible for what happens here,” the 33-year-old said during his opening remarks.
Zuckerberg's House Committee hearing also revealed that the social networking giant track people who are logged out of Facebook and those who do not have account. “For security, it’s to make sure that people who are not signed into Facebook can’t scrape people’s public information. Even when you’re not signed in, you can look up the information that people have chosen to make public on their page,” he explained.
Facebook also tracks offline users to collect information to ensure ads catered to them are more relevant. However, he added that Facebook does not sell the data it collects.
