FACEBOOK UNDER FIRE - User Information Privacy

The core problem is how Facebook makes money, its business model.  Facebook gathers user information to sell to business marketing and others.  This means Facebook makes more money by selling more information.

"How should Facebook change to protect privacy?" PBS NewsHour 4/9/2018

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SUMMARY:  Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, will face a grilling on Capitol Hill Tuesday.  The company has been in damage control mode since news broke about a major breach of Facebook users’ personal information.  Hari Sreenivasan reports and William Branham talks with Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina about the privacy concerns and how the social media giant could change.

"What we learned about Facebook from Mark Zuckerberg's testimony" PBS NewsHour 4/10/2018

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SUMMARY:  Lawmakers pressed Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday to explain why Facebook waited years to tell users about the Cambridge Analytica breach, as well as whether the social media giant tracks users across devices and after they leave the platform.  Amna Nawaz gets analysis from Franklin Foer of The Atlantic about what we learned about Facebook’s founder today, and what questions remain.

"How Facebook does business" PBS NewsHour 4/11/2018

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SUMMARY:  Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg finished his visit to Capitol Hill with another long hearing Wednesday.  After two days, do we have a better understanding of how the social media giant gathers data?  Science correspondent Miles O'Brien joins Amna Nawaz to round up of some of the key takeaways.