Two Senators called Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify for new reports of his company allowing political campaigns unmonitored access to user data
Monday, March 19, 2018
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Democrat Senator Amy Jean Klobuchar, Minnesota
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VietPress USA (Mar. 19, 2018): The Daily Caller today on Monday, March 19, 2018, reported that two Senators including Sen. John Kennedy, R-Louisiana; and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota, have called Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify in regard to new reports of his company allowing political campaigns unmonitored access to user data.
John Neely Kennedy (born November 21, 1951) is an American attorney and politician who is the junior United States Senator from Louisiana, serving since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, after decades of membership in the Democratic Party, he served terms as Louisiana state treasurer and took office as Louisiana's junior senator in the United States Senate on January 3, 2017, alongside the state's senior senator Bill Cassidy. He defeated Democratic candidate Foster Campbell in the Senate election runoff by more than 21 percentage points, about a month after prevailing in the state's jungle primary, along with Campbell. (Wikipedia).
Amy Jean Klobuchar (/ˈkloʊbəʃɑːr/; born May 25, 1960) is an American former prosecutor, author and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party, and Minnesota's first elected female U.S. Senator.
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Kennedy, Klobuchar Call For Zuckerberg To Testify Before Senate Judiciary
by Christian Datoc, Breaking News and Engagement Editor.
Sens. John Kennedy and Amy Klobuchar sent a letter to Senate
Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley Monday, urging him to call Facebook CEO Mark
Zuckerberg to testify in regard to new reports of his company allowing
political campaigns unmonitored access to user data.
“Facebook, Google, and Twitter have amassed unprecedented
amounts of personal data and use this data when selling advertising, including
political advertisements,” the letter reads. “The lack of oversight on how data
is stored and how political advertisements are sold raises concerns about the
integrity of American elections as well as privacy rights.”
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| John Kennedy, Mark Zuckerberg, Amy Klobuchar (Getty Images) |
However, a former digital staffer for Barack Obama’s second
presidential campaign now says the company exhibited the same behavior in 2012.
(RELATED: Obama Staffer – Facebook Knew Presidential Campaign Improperly Seized
Data, Looked the Other Way)
According to former director of Obama for America’s Integration
and Media Analytics Carol Davidsen said that Facebook was “surprised” to
discover the firm was able to “suck out” such a breadth of data on users, “but
they didn’t stop us once they realized that was what we were doing.”
Additionally, Davidsen claims Facebook was “very candid” in
explaining to the campaign “that they allowed [them] to do things they wouldn’t
have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.”
Facebook’s stock plummeted at when the markets opened on
Monday, falling nearly 6 percent just a few hours after the opening bell.
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