Facebook admits it should have told users earlier about breach of policy

But its Asia-Pacific vice-president of public policy has no answer for why it did not do so

Published Thu, Mar 22, 2018 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

FACEBOOK admitted it should have told users earlier about a breach of its policies, when its Asia-Pacific vice- president of public policy appeared before Singapore's Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods on Thursday.

Quizzed by Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam on the alleged misuse of Facebook data by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 US presidential election, Mr Simon Milner agreed that Facebook did have a "moral obligation" to inform users earlier that their data had been breached between 2014 and 2015 by the British firm.

Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan was said to have used an app to extract the information of more than 50…

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