Zuckerberg will be responsible for the first sound of the "leak door"

On March 22nd, Zuckerberg, FacebookCEO, was the first voice to speak after the scandal. He admitted that he was responsible for the Facebook data leakage. He said: “ we have the responsibility to protect user data, and we are cracking down on the abuse of data by the platform. We made a mistake and had more work to do. We are making clear the situation. I am responsible for what happened in Facebook. I will investigate all applications that have access to data.
According to foreign media reports, Zuckerberg said the most important measures used to prevent the recurrence of such events had been taken a few years ago. Users will be banned from abuse of user information. It will further restrict the access of open people to user data. At present, Facebook will reevaluate its platform and investigate all the APP that can access the data before 2014.



In March 17th, a media report, a company called Cambridge analysis UK, illegally acquired 50 million users' personal data on Facebook without user permission. Affected by this effect, Facebook shares had the biggest single day drop in 6.8% years in 19 years, and 6.8% in the five years, and then fell 2.56% on the 20 day, smoothing the company's all year's gains this year. Facebook two market value evaporated 50 billion dollars. At the same time, social media companies such as Twitter, Snapchat, and other social media companies were also plunged.

Why does the data leak happen? Reported that a long time, the Facebook open API interface to external third party companies to provide psychological tests on the Facebook platform or small game, this will enrich the content of such richness Facebook social platform, also through the user share to further strengthen the social relationships between users of the adhesion of.