Mark Zuckerberg asked to testify; ‪Cambridge Analytica data firm’s CEO suspended

Recent controversaries where Facebook is allegedly accused for massive data breach and it's inability to protect user's privacy. Everyone has started asking: Where is its CEO Mark Zuckerberg? The chairman of the UK parliamentary media committee, Damian Collins, said his group has repeatedly asked Facebook how it uses data. He said Facebook officials 'have been misleading to the committee.'

A few days back, Trump-affiliated data-mining firm's head was suspended. Cambridge Analytica which is a privately owned company that combines data mining, data brokerage, and data analysis with strategic communication for the electoral process. The firm has been accused of harvesting data of up to 50 million Facebook users without permission and using the data to help politicians, including US President Donald Trump and the Brexit campaign.

Cambridge Analytica's board of CEO Alexander Nix pending after Nix's said, ' The data-mining firm played a major role in Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential elections.'

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the UK parliamentary media committee has ordered to summon Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify.

Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called Facebook’s latest privacy scandal a “danger signal.” She wants Zuckerberg’s assurances that Facebook is prepared to take the lead on security measures that protect people’s privacy _ or Congress may step in.

Facebook has already suspended Cambridge Analytica from its platform.

The social media giant admitted that an estimated 2,70,000 people had downloaded the app and shared their personal information with it.

However, the firm denied all wrongdoings and insisted it followed the correct procedures in obtaining and using data.

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