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
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.
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